VERSION: 0.2
DATE: December 31st 2010

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DISCLAIMER 
This code is written because I needed the functionality.
There is no support or guarantee that it works for you. 
There is not enough error checking in this code, it will
crash whenever you least expect it.

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INTRODUCTION
This is the source distribution of the wimlib.
I'm currently using it for changing WinPE WIM 
images and dumping the XML info of larger WIM files.
Just enough to use it for automated deployment of
Windows 7 (and maybe in the future Vista and 2008)
from Linux with the Ultimate Deployment Appliance.

Please feel free to change, extend, clean up the code.
This software is released under the GPLv

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LICENSE

The lzx code (lzx.c and lzx.h) is taken from the libmspack 
library from the cabextract project. That library is released 
under the GNU LGPL version 2. 

The wimlib itself is also released under the GNU LGPL version 2. 

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FILES


README          This file

LICENSE         The License file for this library

wim.c,wim.h     C Library for WIM file format support

lzx.c, lzx.h    C Library for LZX decompression (see references)

wiminfo.c       C program that dumps the information in the WIM file

wimextract.c    C program that extracts a file from a WIM file

updatewim.c     C program that dumps that can 'rewrite'  a WIM 
                file and make some rudimentary changes

wimxmlinfo.c    C program that dumps the XML information in the WIM file
                (supports files larger then 2Gb)

actionfile.txt  example input file for use with the updatewim command.

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LIMITATIONS

I've only used and tested this code on Linux 32 Bit.

Updating of WIM files larger then 2Gb is not supported.

Only LZX compression is suported at this moment. XPress
compressed WIM files will fail.

Bootmetadata is written back to the destination WIM file
uncompressed.

Files added to the WIM file are stored uncompressed in the
destination WIM file.

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REFERENCES
The tools in this package are primarily used to deploy
windows 7 from the Ultimate Deployment Appliance. See:
http://www.ultimatedeployment.org

lzx.c and lzx.h are taken from the cabextract project.
For more information see: http://www.cabextract.org.uk/

The w2a and aw2 functions are taken from the chntpw project
For more information see: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

The WIM format is specified in a document that can be found
in the Microsoft Download Center.

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