File Roller Manual 1.0

Alexander Kirillov

GNOME Documentation Project

 kirillov@math.sunysb.edu 

This manual describes version 1.0.1 of File Roller.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Opening and Viewing Archives
Viewing a File in an Archive
Modifying an Archive
Extracting Files From an Archive
Creating Archives
Settings
About File Roller

Introduction

The File Roller is a graphical application for viewing, unpacking, and creating archive files. An archive file is a file that acts as a container for other files. An archive can contain many files, directories, and subdirectories, usually in compressed form. There are many types of archives, using different formats and compression methods.

File Roller provides the following features:

Please note that File Roller provides just the graphical interface; it relies on command-line utilities such as tar, gzip, bzip2 for for its operations. Thus, it will only support the formats listed above if you have appropriate command line tools installed on your system. Most Linux distributions include all of these tools.

To start File Roller open the Main Menu, then choose Programs->Utilities->File Roller.

You can also start File Roller from the command line. To do so, type file-roller or file-roller filename.tar.gz and press Return. Here filename.tar.gz is the name of the archive file you want to open.