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Copyright © 2002 by Alexander Kirillov
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:
Support for the following archive formats:
Uncompressed tar archive (.tar)
Tar archive compressed with gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz). This is the most common archive format on Unix and Linux systems.
Tar archive compressed with bzip (.tar.bz).
Tar archive compressed with bzip2 (.tar.bz2).
Tar archive compressed with compress (.tar.Z).
Archives created with PKZIP or WinZip (.zip). This is the de-facto standard archive type on Microsoft Windows systems.
Lha archive (.lha).
Rar archive (.rar).
Lha archive (.lzh).
Ear archive (.ear).
Jar archive (.jar).
War archive (.war).
Ability to view files in the archive using either Bonobo-enabled "viewers" for fast viewing or any application installed on your system when more advanced features are neeeded.
Ability to add or remove files from an existing archive.
Drug and drop support.
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.
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