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   1  VERSION: 0.2
   2  DATE: December 31st 2010
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   6  DISCLAIMER 
   7  This code is written because I needed the functionality.
   8  There is no support or guarantee that it works for you. 
   9  There is not enough error checking in this code, it will
  10  crash whenever you least expect it.
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  13  
  14  INTRODUCTION
  15  This is the source distribution of the wimlib.
  16  I'm currently using it for changing WinPE WIM 
  17  images and dumping the XML info of larger WIM files.
  18  Just enough to use it for automated deployment of
  19  Windows 7 (and maybe in the future Vista and 2008)
  20  from Linux with the Ultimate Deployment Appliance.
  21  
  22  Please feel free to change, extend, clean up the code.
  23  This software is released under the GPLv
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  26  
  27  LICENSE
  28  
  29  The lzx code (lzx.c and lzx.h) is taken from the libmspack 
  30  library from the cabextract project. That library is released 
  31  under the GNU LGPL version 2. 
  32  
  33  The wimlib itself is also released under the GNU LGPL version 2. 
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  36  
  37  FILES
  38  
  39  
  40  README          This file
  41  
  42  LICENSE         The License file for this library
  43  
  44  wim.c,wim.h     C Library for WIM file format support
  45  
  46  lzx.c, lzx.h    C Library for LZX decompression (see references)
  47  
  48  wiminfo.c       C program that dumps the information in the WIM file
  49  
  50  wimextract.c    C program that extracts a file from a WIM file
  51  
  52  updatewim.c     C program that dumps that can 'rewrite'  a WIM 
  53                  file and make some rudimentary changes
  54  
  55  wimxmlinfo.c    C program that dumps the XML information in the WIM file
  56                  (supports files larger then 2Gb)
  57  
  58  actionfile.txt  example input file for use with the updatewim command.
  59  
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  61  
  62  LIMITATIONS
  63  
  64  I've only used and tested this code on Linux 32 Bit.
  65  
  66  Updating of WIM files larger then 2Gb is not supported.
  67  
  68  Only LZX compression is suported at this moment. XPress
  69  compressed WIM files will fail.
  70  
  71  Bootmetadata is written back to the destination WIM file
  72  uncompressed.
  73  
  74  Files added to the WIM file are stored uncompressed in the
  75  destination WIM file.
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  78  
  79  REFERENCES
  80  The tools in this package are primarily used to deploy
  81  windows 7 from the Ultimate Deployment Appliance. See:
  82  http://www.ultimatedeployment.org
  83  
  84  lzx.c and lzx.h are taken from the cabextract project.
  85  For more information see: http://www.cabextract.org.uk/
  86  
  87  The w2a and aw2 functions are taken from the chntpw project
  88  For more information see: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
  89  
  90  The WIM format is specified in a document that can be found
  91  in the Microsoft Download Center.
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