Xarchiver 0.5.4

Giuseppe Torelli

This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.

Caution!

This documentation is a bit outdated. It may still be useful, though.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
About Xarchiver
Where to get it
License
2. Installation
Requirements
Source compilation
3. Usage
Getting started
Command line options
General
Startup
How it works
Drag and Drop
Xarchiver menu
File menu
Action menu
Help Menu
4. FAQ
Why are ace archives not supported?
How can I create an archive with some files password protected and others not?
Why does Xarchiver emit this error message when handling tar archives?
Why is the option "Extract with full path" disabled when using the -e switch with tar archives?
Why does Xarchiver sometimes report errors but the Error messages window is empty?
Why Xarchiver doesn't allow me to choose the archive self-extracting path as it happens with zip and 7z?

List of Figures

3.1. New dialog
3.2. Archive properties dialog
3.3. Add dialog
3.4. Extract dialog
3.5. Multi-Extract dialog
3.6. Archive comment dialog
3.7. Password dialog
3.8. Preferences dialog

List of Tables

3.1. Command line options