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[T800]

I think that Autohotkey could very easy have a native support for zip/unzip

First take a look here:
http://www.codeproject.com/file/zip_utils.asp
or here
http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/zip_utils.html

Now take a look at what I have easily done with this source code
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23741

For example, one could load entire simple text file or bitmap into memory directly from zip, and it's all for very small memory/size sacrifice.

Maybe this should be added to the wish list?

[majkinetor]

I think its not bad idea but I beleive it would duoble the exe size. If it can be done without much sacreficing size of the exe, it would be nice to have.
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[T800]

Well, I made a static unzip library and it's 176 kb , when you zip it up, it's 57 kb.
For zip component it's 164 kb static, 53 kb zipped.
Plus the use of upx.

There is an option in VS2003 and 2005 called "link time code generation" which AHK project uses,
designed for executable optimization in release configuration.
(the whole process how exe is built is actually quite interesting).
When I'm using this option I get significant (up to 50%)
size reduction and speed optimization in my Zip Thumbnails project.

Just for size comparison, AHK help file is 1,069 MB and runtime exe is 233 kb.
Another option is to use zlib.dll dynamicaly, so then it's optional and no size added.