SYNOPSIS¶

NAME¶

Action¶

-c, --create

Create new archive with file(s)

-a, --append, --add

Append file(s) to archive

-d, -r, --delete, --remove

Remove file(s) from archive

-R, --rename

Rename file in archive

-l, --list

List file(s) of archive

-e, -x, --extract

Extract file(s) from archive

-i, --info

Show info about archive

-h, -u, --help, --usage

Show this help/usage information

-V, --license, --version

Show version license information

Options¶

-L, --listfile <file>

Additional external listfile (not used when appending file)

-n, --no-system-listfiles

Do not load system listfile(s) (not used when appending file)

-N, --no-archive-listfile

Do not use/create archive listfile (file names will not be read/stored)

-A, --no-attributes

Do not allow using file attributes (time, checksum, hash)

-M, --mpq-version <version>

Specify MPQ archive version: (default: use new version 4)

1 support up to 4GB size of archive

2 support greater then 4GB size of archive (Introduced in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade)

3 (Introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta)

4 (Introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm)

-S, --sector-crc

Store/Check CRC for each sector, ignored if file has none compression or is single unit

-q, --quiet

Be quiet, do not show any output

-f, -o, --force, --overwrite

Enable overwrite file(s)

-v, --verbose

Enable verbose output

-O, --locale <id>

Set locale id (default: neutral=0)

For all locale id see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912047(WinEmbedded.10).aspx

Options for appending file(s) to archive¶

-m, --max-file-count <count>

Set maximum file count of archive (power of 2, 0 - autodetect) (default: 0)

-E, --encrypt

Store as encrypted

-F, --fix-key

Encryption key will be adjusted according to file size in the archive (need -E)

-D, --deletion-marker

Set deletion marker

-U, --single-unit

Add file as single unit, cannot be encrypted

-C, --compression <method>

Compression method: (default: ZLIB)

none None compression

IMPLODE Pkware Data Compression IMPLODE method - OBSOLETE (It was used only in Diablo I)

PKWARE Pkware Data compression

HUFFMANN Huffmann compression (Introduced in Starcraft I)

ADPCM_MONO IMA ADPCM compression for 1-channel (mono) WAVE files - Lossy compression, only for WAVE files (Now it is not used)

ADPCM_STEREO IMA ADPCM compression for 2-channel (stereo) WAVE files - Lossy compression, only for WAVE files (Now it is not used)

ZLIB ZLIB compression (Introduced in Warcraft III)

BZIP2 BZIP2 compression (Introduced in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade)

SPARSE SPARSE compression (Introduced in Starcraft II)

LZMA LZMA compression (Introduced in Starcraft II)

HUFFMANN+ADPCM_MONO Together Huffmann and IMA ADPCM compression for 1-channel (mono) WAVE files

HUFFMANN+ADPCM_STEREO Together Huffmann and IMA ADPCM compression for 2-channel (stereo) WAVE files

ZLIB+PKWARE Together ZLIB and Pkware Data compression

BZIP2+PKWARE Together BZIP2 and Pkware Data compression

SPARSE+ZLIB Together SPARSE and ZLIB compression

SPARSE+PKWARE Together SPARSE and Pkware Data compression

SPARSE+BZIP2 Together SPARSE and BZIP2 compression

SPARSE+ZLIB+PKWARE Together SPARSE, ZLIB and Pkware Data compression

SPARSE+BZIP2+PKWARE Together SPARSE, BZIP2 and Pkware Data compression

Options for extracting file(s) from archive¶

-P, --partial

Archive is partial (default: autodetect) (Partial archives were used by trial version of World of Warcraft)

-X, --not-encrypted

Archive is not encrypted (default: autodetect) (Encrypted archives have Starcraft II installation)

-p

Open more (patched) archives with directory prefix (prefix:archive), when file is in more archives, will be extracted from last

Usage with more (patched) archives¶

Examples¶

Create empty archive `archive.mpq'

smpq -c archive.mpq

Create archive `archive.mpq' with two files `file1.txt' and `file2.txt'

smpq -c archive.mpq file1.txt file2.txt

Extract all files from archive `archive.mpq' to current directory

smpq -x archive.mpq

Extract files with extension .txt from archive `archive.mpq'

smpq -x archive.mpq '*.txt'

Show information about archive `archive.mpq'

smpq -i archive.mpq

AUTHOR¶

LICENSE¶