After WarpIN has been installed itself, it can
install WarpIN archives.
WarpIN archives have the .WPI
file extension and a special format
which is not compatible with other archive formats (e.g. ZIP or RAR). Because
WarpIN offers features that other archiving software does not provide for,
we have introduced our own format instead.
Since WarpIN is associated with *.WPI
files, you can simply
double-click on an archive to have WarpIN install it.
WarpIN will operate in different modes depending on whether packages
from the archive have already been installed:
- If none of the packages in the archive file have already been installed,
WarpIN will enter "full install" mode.
- If some or all of the packages in the archive are found in the WarpIN
global database, which means they have been installed
already, WarpIN will enter "add/remove" mode,
where you can selectively install, re-install, or de-install packages from that archive.
If you simply double-click on the WarpIN program object (and not on an archive),
WarpIN will instead open the global database directly.