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paq8px_script 2022-09-07
Ongoing Updates to the paq8px_script.py script to compress files using PAQ8PX

Ongoing Updates to the paq8px_script.py script to compress files using PAQ8PX

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Hi everyone, Over the past few days, I’ve revisited my old paq8px_script.py Python script that I wrote in order to compress files using the paq8px compressor. This script builds a file list that we can feed to paq8px so that it can compress multiple files and create an archive. I wrote an introductory post of this project back in 2018. An update I did in 2020 was to add multithreaded compression by making a paq8px archive per file. This is…

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PAQCompress v0.3.7
PAQCompress v0.3.7 released!

PAQCompress v0.3.7 released!

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Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.7: This new release adds support for the following PAQ versions: paq8pxd v64 paq8pxv v6 You can download this new release at GitHub here: PAQCompress v0.3.7 The source code, as usual, is available at the PAQCompress project repository: https://github.com/moisesmcardona/PAQCompress Technical notes: paq8pxv v6 provided only one executable, and it was not labeled either with their usual “jit.exe” ending nor with “vm.exe”. Because of this, I had to write a new function that will…

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PAQCompress v0.3.6 released!

PAQCompress v0.3.6 released!

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Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.6: This release adds PAQ8PXv v5. The previous release added PAQ8PX v4 and PAQ8P_PC. You can download this new version at the project’s GitHub page here: https://github.com/moisesmcardona/PAQCompress/releases/tag/v0.3.6 Enjoy! Post Views: 0

PAQCompress v0.3.3 and v0.3.4 released!

PAQCompress v0.3.3 and v0.3.4 released!

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Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.3 and v0.3.4. Yup, 2 versions in a day. What happened was that paq8pxd v63 was first released, so I downloaded it and added support for it in PAQCompress. That’s what v0.3.3 adds. A few minutes later, it turns out that paq8px v178 was also released, so I also added support in PAQCompress and that’s what v0.3.4 adds: So there you have it, 2 version in a day. Of course, you should only…

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PAQCompress v0.3.2
PAQCompress v0.3.2 released!

PAQCompress v0.3.2 released!

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Hi everyone, Today morning, I have released v0.3.2 of PAQCompress: This new release adds support for paq8px v62. You can download it at GitHub here: https://github.com/moisesmcardona/PAQCompress/releases/tag/v0.3.2 Enjoy! Post Views: 0

PAQCompress v0.3 and cmix_gui v1.6 released!

PAQCompress v0.3 and cmix_gui v1.6 released!

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Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3: This release allows you to drag and drop a file into the software executable and it will pre-fill the input and output textboxes, saving you time from browsing for an input and output location. You can download this release at GitHub here: https://github.com/moisesmcardona/PAQCompress/releases/tag/v0.3 I’ve also released CMIX GUI v1.6: This release adds cmix_v16f and improves the software logging. As with PAQCompress, you can also now drag and drop a file into the…

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PAQ8PX Python Script 1
A simple script to compress files using the very powerful PAQ8PX compression software

A simple script to compress files using the very powerful PAQ8PX compression software

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Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to share with you a Python script I wrote that enables file and folder compression using the latest version of the powerful PAQ8PX compression software. PAQ is a compression software originally developed by Matt Mahoney and released under the GPL license. It has a lot of contributors and has had lots of changes since it was originally introduced. PAQ8PX is one of the most powerful (and slowest) compression software that is actively under development. You…

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