Ark (software)

Ark, formerly KZip, is a free program of the K Desktop Environment ( part of the package kdeutils ) to graphically manage archive files in a variety of formats. It provides a graphical front-end to various data compression and compression tools for the command line ( backend ) Represents the program is free software under the GNU General Public License ( GPL). The program was originally released as KZip. On 3 November 1998 Ark 0.5 appeared as the first version under the new name. Back then integrated with the KDE file manager, KFM, what changed on 23 October 2000 with the release of version 2 of KDE, Konqueror in what was introduced as a file manager.

Functions

Ark can display the contents of archives, extract files from it, delete or add and which also create new archives. The functions are available through the main window on the buttons, menus, and drag and drop, or they can also be used for other KDE applications like Konqueror or Dolphin out, in which it can be integrated as KPart. So can be packed and unpacked, for example, Konqueror via the context menu files. With the corresponding command -line utilities can with files within 7z, tar, rar, zip, gzip, bzip, bzip2, LHA, zoo and ar deal. The corresponding compression tools must be installed separately.