TkZip is a graphical X interface to archive management, adding a GUI front end to the standard archiving utilities - tar, gzip, compress, zcat, zip, etc. (you must have the appropriate utilities installed on your system). It provides * automatic archive type recognition, independent of filename conventions * easy-to-navigate directory/file selection lists * archive directory viewing * viewing or extraction of selected files from an archive * automatic file type recognition for files within an archive, and MIME style viewer selection * archive creation/updating (release 0.7.0 and later) * support for most common archive/compression formats used by Unix and DOS/Windows systems o tar o zip (Info-ZIP, PKZIP), including self-extracting .exe files o gzipped tar (GNU tar/gzip) o compressed tar o gzip (GNU compression format) o compress o ar (you know, like static linking libraries; this is also the outer wrapper of the .deb files used by the Debian package manager - in a pinch you can explore or install a Debian package with TkZip and a little imagination) o arj (no comments, please, I still find some of these floating around) o rar (ibid.) o shorten (normally used for sound samples, like synth patch files) o bzip2 (usually superior compression to gzip, at the expense of being slower) o rpm (if you have to ask, you probably don't need to know) o ...and more. * archive device support (floppy disk, tape) under Unix * support for spacey Windows 95 style filenames (i.e.,, filenames with embedded spaces) in archives created by WinZip Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
No progress here, last upstream release from 2002. WONTFIX.
