Snappy

Windows command line compression/decompression tool based on Google's snappy library - written in assembler

Snappy is designed and programmed by fearless (C) Copyright 2017 and uses static builds of Google's Snappy compression/decompression library https://google.github.io/snappy/.

Usage

Snappy [ /? | -? ]
Snappy [ switch | command ] [ <infile> [ <outfile> ] ]
Snappy [ switch | command ] <filespec>
Snappy [ switch | command ] <folder>

Switches:

• /? | -? - Displays snappy help usage.

• /c | -c - Switch to set mode of operation to compression.

• /d | -d - Switch to set mode of operation to decompression.

Commands:

• c - Command to set mode of operation to compression.

• d - Command to set mode of operation to decompression.

Parameters:

• <infile>- The name of an existing filename to compress/decompress.

• <outfile> - The the name of a filename to compress/decompress <infile> to. If no <outfile> is provided, filename is determined by mode, see notes.

• <filespec> - A set of files to compress/decompress, which supports the use of the wildcards * and ? for specifying which files to include.

• <folder> - A folder to compress/decompress all files contained within and assumes the use of <folder\*.*> for processing file operations.

Notes:

• <filespec> and <folder> do not support an <outfile> parameter.

• If no compress/decompress mode is specified via switches or commands, then the mode of operation is determined by filename of the <infile>, a .sz extension indicates mode is decompress, otherwise it is compress.

• If no <outfile> is provided, then <outfile> filename is determined by mode and based on the <infile> filename. Compression mode adds a .sz extension and decompression mode removes any .sz extension.

• Snappy.exe can be renamed to snsnap.exe or snzip.exe to set the default mode to compression. Snappy.exe can be renamed to snunsnap.exe or snunzip.exe to set the default mode to decompress.

• The default modes can be overridden by providing switches or commands. Switches and commands are not case sensitive.

Build

Compiling the Snappy tool requires the following static library dependencies:

• Console x86 library - https://github.com/mrfearless/libraries/tree/master/Console/Console x86
• Snappy x86 library - https://github.com/mrfearless/libraries/tree/master/Snappy/Snappy x86