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| atool | 0.27.0 | GPL | A script for managing file archives of various types. | atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, etc). The main command is probably 'aunpack' which extracts files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded "multiple files in archive root" problem by first extracting to a unique subdirectory, and then moving back the files if possible. aunpack also prevents local files from being overwritten by mistake. Other commands provided are apack (for creating archives), als (for listing files in archives), and acat (for extracting files to stdout). |
| bzip2 | 1.0.2 | BSD | Extremely powerful file compression utility | Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of GNU Gzip, but they are not identical. |
| cabextract | 0.6 | GPL | A program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files | Cabinet (.CAB) files are a form of archive, which Microsoft use to distribute their software, and things like Windows Font Packs. The cabextract program simply unpacks such files. |
| dact | 0.8.35 | LGPL | Dinamically choose best algorithm to compress a file | DACT is a compression tool designed to compress a file dynamically, choosing the algorithm that works best per block of input data to produce an overall smaller output file. |
| file-roller | 2.4.4 | GPL | An archive manager for GNOME. | File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. This means that you can : create and modify archives; view the content of an archive; view a file contained in the archive; extract files from the archive. File Roller is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip. The supported file types are : * Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with * gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz) * bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz) * bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2) * compress (.tar.Z , .taz) * lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo) * Zip archives (.zip) * Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war) * Lha archives (.lzh) * Rar archives (.rar) * Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop |
| gnochive | 0.7.0 | GPL | Gnochive is a GNOME frontend to the RAR archiver | Gnochive is an archive program for handling RAR, gzip, tar, zip, archives, and also provides a GUI interface. |
| gnozip | 0.1.3 | GPL | Graphical interface for compression utilities | GnoZip aims to be the WinZip(tm) of the Gnome environment providing graphical interface to the most common compression utilities. |
| gzip | 1.2.4a | GPL | The GNU data compression program | The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension. Gzip should be installed on your Mandrake Linux system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program. |
| karchiver | 3.0.10 | GPL | A KDE archive management | This KDE application allows you reading, extracting, converting and modifying .tar, .bz2, .gz, .zip... archives, just with a mouse! Now uses wizards to compile and install softwares... It can also split them to fit in floppies |
| lha | 1.14i | Freeware-like | An archiving and compression utility for LHarc format archives. | LhA is an archiving and compression utility for LHarc format archive. LhA is mostly used in the Amiga and in the DOS world, but can be used under Linux to extract files from .lha and .lzh archives. Install the LhA package if you need to extract files from .lha or .lzh Amiga or DOS archives, or if you have to build LhA archives to be read on the Amiga or DOS. |
| lzop | 1.01 | GPL | LZO fast file compressor | lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of compression ratio. lzop was designed with the following goals in mind: 1) speed (both compression and decompression) 2) reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip 3) portability |
| mscompress | 0.3 | GPL | MS compress/expand-compatible (de)compressor | Microsoft compress.exe/expand.exe-compatible file (de)compressor. |
| ncompress | 4.2.4 | Public Domain | Fast compression and decompression utilities. | The ncompress package contains the compress and uncompress file compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions). These utilities can't handle gzipped (.gz file extensions) files, but gzip can handle compressed files. |
| nomarch | 1.3 | GPL | GPLed Arc de-archiver | nomarch lists/extracts/tests `.arc' archives. (It also handles `.ark' files, they're exactly the same.) This is a *very* outdated file format which should never be used for anything new, but unfortunately, you can still run into it every so often. |
| unzip | 5.50 | BSD-like | Unpacks ZIP files such as those made by pkzip under DOS | unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive, commonly found on MS-DOS systems. A companion program, zip, creates ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with archives created by PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many cases the program options or default behaviors differ. This version also has encryption support. |
| upx | 1.24 | GPL | The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables | UPX is an advanced executable file compressor. UPX will typically reduce the file size of programs and DLLs by around 50%, thus reducing disk space, network load times, download times and other distribution and storage costs. Programs and libraries compressed by UPX are completely self-contained and run exactly as before, with no runtime or memory penalty for most of the supported formats. UPX supports a number of different executable formats, including Win95/98/ME/NT/2000 programs and DLLs, DOS programs, and Linux executables. UPX is rated number one in the well known Archive Comparison Test. Visit http://web.act.by.net/~act/act-exepack.html |
| zip | 2.3 | BSD-like | A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP | The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program. This version support crypto encryption. |
There is something a little bit surreal about sitting in a meeting of the Jamaica Linux Users Group (JaLUG), in a cafe beside a waterfall — with Linus, Ted, Eric and other luminaries in the front of the room and an attentive audience filling the rest of the space — while a veteran local IBM executive stands up and describes the adoption of Linux by the company’s customers with adjectives like “huge”. — Doc Searles
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