azip.txt

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AZip - A free, portable Zip Archive Manager
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  AZip is a Zip Archive Manager with a portable user interface
  and unique features such as: built-in content search, smart
  archive update, archive recompression.

  The goal is to keep the user interface as simple as possible and
  bother the user the least possible with options or useless gadgets.

Features
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   * Aimed at simplicity, minimal option set
   * Usual archive management: Add / Remove / Extract files
   * Useful & unique tools:
       * Search     : content and/or entry name built-in search function
                        through an archive - no need to extract contents!
       * Update     : changes only new, modified files in an archive
       * Recompress : make a Zip archive smaller
   * Flat view / Tree view
   * Multi-document
   * Methods supported: Reduce, Shrink, Implode, Deflate, Deflate64, BZip2, LZMA
   * Encryption
   * Portable (installation not needed, but supported; no DLL; no configuration file (*))
   * Free, open-source
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(*)  AZip can alternatively operate in a stealth "no trace in registry" mode.
        All you need is to put a dummy configuration file
        with the name "azip.cfg" in the same directory as the executable, azip.exe.
        If azip.cfg is read-only, user settings won't be remembered for next usage,
        otherwise settings will be recorded in azip.cfg instead of in the registry.


License / Warning / Legal stuff
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There is NO WARRANTY in the AZip software.
AZip is licensed under the MIT License.
You find the full license and copyright notice in zip.ads.

Platforms supported
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  * Windows
  * Others: work in progess: there is a draft multiplatform GTK implementation
  * AZip's UI is mostly generic, so it can be implemented on various
      UI toolkits without redoing from scratch
  
How to build & modify AZip
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  * Go to Alire ( https://alire.ada.dev/ ) and get the AZip crate.
  
Alternatively, "by hand":

  * Download the GNAT compiler: https://www.adacore.com/download
  * For the GWindows toolkit and other dependencies: read the comments in
       the gwindows/azip_gwindows.gpr project file (just open it as text
       file) for further instructions.

Thanks to...
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[Zip-Ada - Zip archive management library]
  Stratégies Software team: intensive profiling and contributions
  ITEC team at NXP Semiconductors: contributions

[GWindows - native MS Windows framework]
  David Botton: main author
  André van Splunter
  Frank Piron, Falk Maier at KonAd GmbH: authors of GWindows Extended

Asen Anastassov, for the idea of a "stealth mode" (no trace in registry).

Nicolas F. Mirkov, for the ideas of an option for a default extract
  directory and of context menus within AZip.

Nicolas Pinault (DrPi), for the Single Instance feature in GWindows.