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 you simply double-click on the WarpIN program object (and not on an archive), WarpIN will instead open the global database directly.