03-18-2011
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Originally Posted by
methyl
@solaris040
What Operating System are you running? Do you have some sort of enhanced "tar"?
More importantly, what 'tar' do you have? For example, nothing is stopping you from running GNU tar on a Solaris-kernel system. Nothing prevents you from writing or modifying your own tar command and installing it.
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file-roller(1) General Commands Manual file-roller(1)
NAME
file-roller - archive manager for GNOME
SYNOPSIS
file-roller [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.
It supports most common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an
archive and open files contained in the archive.
OPTIONS
-a, --add-to=ARCHIVE
Add files to the specified archive and quit the program
-d, --add FILE
Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program
-e, --extract-to=FOLDER
Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program
-f, --extract
Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program
-h, --extract-here
Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program
--default-dir=FOLDER
Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands
--force
Create destination folder without asking confirmation
This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
AUTHORS
file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)
The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
GNOME
2007-09-27 file-roller(1)