Extracting archived files
May 19, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun, Questions, laptops
For lack of space, people compress files before copying them or sending them via email. If you guys didn’t talk about the archiving, you might have some headaches especially if you haven’t used Linux before. There are tools like XArchiver and when you’re using Gnome, there’s FileRoller and in KDE you have Ark. These are all graphical ways for you to use the tools like the tar compression and zip compression applications. I haven’t seen a distro without one of these three yet.
For users of Gnome and Kde, you could simply click the file you want …read more
