Introduccion

You can use the Archive Manager application to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form.

Archive Manager provides only a graphical interface, and relies on command-line utilities such as tar, gzip, and bzip2 for archive operations.

If you have the appropriate command-line tools installed on your system, Archive Manager supports the archive formats listed in the following table.

Format Filename Extension
7-Zip archive .7z
WinAce archive .ace
ALZip archive .alz
AIX small indexed archive .ar
Archiva ARJ .arj
Cabinet file .cab
UNIX CPIO archive .cpio
Debian Linux package .deb
ISO-9660 CD disc image .iso
Java archive .jar
Java enterprise archive .ear
Java web archive .war
Archiu LHA .lha, .lzh
WinRAR compressed archive .rar
RAR Archived Comic Book .cbr
RPM Linux package .rpm
Uncompressed tar archive .tar
Tar archive compressed with bzip .tar.bz or .tbz
Tar archive compressed with bzip2 .tar.bz2 or .tbz2
Tar archive compressed with gzip .tar.gz or .tgz
Tar archive compressed with lzip .tar.lz or .tlz
Tar archive compressed with lzop .tar.lzo or .tzo
Tar archive compressed with compress .tar.Z or .taz
Tar archive compressed with 7zip .tar.7z
Stuffit archives .bin or .sit
PKZIP or WinZip archive .zip
ZIP Archived Comic Book .cbz
Archiva Zoo .zoo

The most common archive format on UNIX and Linux systems is the tar archive compressed with gzip or bzip2.

The most common archive format on Microsoft Windows systems is the archive created with PKZIP or WinZip.

1.1. Compressed Non-Archive Files

A compressed non-archive file is a file that is created when you use bzip2, gzip, lzip, lzop, compress or rzip to compress a non-archive file. For example, file.txt.gz is created when you use gzip to compress file.txt.

You can use Archive Manager to create, open and extract a compressed non-archive file.