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07
Mar 2026

Today I would like to present my new article: "Total Commander – a Plugin Supporting a Custom Archive Format". In this article, we will design our own file format that allows multiple files to be packed and compressed into a single archive, similar to formats like ZIP or 7Z. Using the C++ language and the Visual Studio environment on Windows, we will then write a plugin for the Total Commander file manager that enables creating and manipulating such an archive, including freely adding and removing files inside it.

The article was first published few months ago in Polish in issue 5/2025 (120) of the Programista magazine. Now I have a right to show it publicly for free, so I share it in two language versions:

• "Total Commander – a Plugin Supporting a Custom Archive Format"
• "Total Commander – wtyczka obsługująca własny format archiwum"

See also GitHub repository with the source code accompanying the article: sawickiap/TotalCommanderPluginTutorial

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