X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=5cd39159ef80fe7d640662b9ebeaa5f24da42da0;hp=f17ff6f5c56beaa53cf7a660d74c350239b41b00;hb=0aa85dec59ba8be1e93feb3e92f6090c89d038d5;hpb=7e7aeb2b91b492886ebdc28e5bac0b25462c154b diff --git a/README b/README index f17ff6f5..5cd39159 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ WIMLIB -This is wimlib version 1.3.2 (March 2013). wimlib can be used to read, write, +This is wimlib version 1.3.3 (April 2013). wimlib can be used to read, write, and mount files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). These files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on Windows, but this library provides a free implementation of ImageX for UNIX-based systems. @@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ A WIM file may be either stand-alone or split into multiple parts. PROGRAMS wimlib provides a public API for other programs to use, but also comes with two -programs: `imagex' and `mkwinpeimg'. +programs: `wimlib-imagex' and `mkwinpeimg'. -`imagex' is intended to be like the imagex.exe program from Windows. `imagex' -can be used to create, extract, and mount WIM files. Both read-only and -read-write mounts are supported. See the man page `doc/imagex.1' for more -details. +`wimlib-imagex' is intended to be like the imagex.exe program from Windows. +`wimlib-imagex' can be used to create, extract, and mount WIM files. Both +read-only and read-write mounts are supported. See the man page +`doc/wimlib-imagex.1' for more details. `mkwinpeimg' is shell script that makes it easy to create a customized bootable image of Windows PE that can be put on a CD or USB drive, or published on a @@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ a compressed Windows PE image (disk usage of about 524 MB, uncompressed WIM size Table 1. WIM size XPRESS Compression LZX Compression - wimlib imagex (v1.2.1): 138,971,353 bytes 131,379,943 bytes + wimlib-imagex (v1.2.1): 138,971,353 bytes 131,379,943 bytes Microsoft imagex.exe: 140,406,981 bytes 127,249,176 bytes Table 2. Time to create WIM XPRESS Compression LZX Compression - wimlib imagex (v1.2.1, 2 threads): 11 sec 17 sec + wimlib-imagex (v1.2.1, 2 threads): 11 sec 17 sec Microsoft imagex.exe: 25 sec 89 sec NTFS SUPPORT @@ -187,17 +187,17 @@ wimlib's `configure' script: --disable-custom-memory-allocator If this option is given, a very small amount of space will be saved by - removing support for the wimlib_set_memory_allocator() function. imagex - will be unaffected. - ---disable-verify-compression - Unless this option is given, every time wimlib compresses a data block, - it will decompress it into a temporary buffer and abort the program with - an error message if the decompressed data does not exactly match the - original data. This only makes compression about 10% slower. However, - this checking can probably be safely disabled because there are no known - bugs in the compression code, and the SHA1 message digest of every - extracted file is checked anyway. + removing support for the wimlib_set_memory_allocator() function. + wimlib-imagex will be unaffected. + +--enable-verify-compression + If this option is given, every time wimlib compresses a data block, it + will decompress it into a temporary buffer and abort the program with an + error message if the decompressed data does not exactly match the + original data. This only makes compression about 10% slower. This + checking is disabled by default because there are no known bugs in the + compression code, and the SHA1 message digest of every extracted file is + checked anyway. --disable-error-messages Save some space by removing all error messages from the library. @@ -313,8 +313,8 @@ Zip: MORE INFORMATION -See the manual pages for `imagex', the manual pages for the subcommands of -`imagex', and the manual page for `mkwinpeimg'. +See the manual pages for `wimlib-imagex', the manual pages for the subcommands +of `wimlib-imagex', and the manual page for `mkwinpeimg'. As of version 0.5.0, wimlib's public API is documented. Doxygen is required to build the documentation. To build the documentation, run `configure', then