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Raniz
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 Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: Multi-archiver with support for many filetypes. |
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For Windows there is WinRAR. It can extract data from a wide range of archives, but I'm not running Windows so that doesn't do me any good.
Unfortunately rar/unrar only handles rar-archives and not - as one would hope - all archives that WinRAR handles...
Does anyone know of any super-archiver that can read virtually every type of archive available? |
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RoadRunn
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Multi-archiver with support for many filetypes. |
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| Raniz wrote: | For Windows there is WinRAR. It can extract data from a wide range of archives, but I'm not running Windows so that doesn't do me any good.
Unfortunately rar/unrar only handles rar-archives and not - as one would hope - all archives that WinRAR handles...
Does anyone know of any super-archiver that can read virtually every type of archive available? |
I don't know of an archiver itself, but mc (console), file-roller (gnome), and ark (kde) use helper programs so that you can manage all types of archives via a single interface. They call the helper programs, /usr/bin/unrar for example, behind the scenes |
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Kompi
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01mf02
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| Yes, try unfoo, I love it! |
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numerodix
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I use ark, it's a plugin to konqueror which handles archives, but you need the various compressors installed on your system for it to recognize them.
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