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 <sect1 id="archives">
   <title>Archive Handling</title>
   <indexterm>
     <primary>Archives</primary>
   </indexterm>
   <sect2 id="browsing-archives">
     <title>Browsing Archives</title>
     <para>The <link linkend="vfs">Virtual file systems (VFS)</link> allows you to browse archives as
     if it was a folder. Currently &krusader; supports
     the following archives types: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso,
     lha, rar, rpm, tar, xz, zip, and 7-zip and supports the following
     passworded archives: arj, ace, rar and zip. Passwords can be
     stored in <application>KWallet</application>. Please note that the archive
     support first needs to be properly 
     <link linkend="konfig-archives">configured</link> in
     Konfigurator. To open the archive, use &Enter; key,
     (double-)click or the &Right; key. &krusader; supports
     also 
     <emphasis role="bold">hidden archives</emphasis>, these are
     renamed archives with a *wrong* extension, &eg;
     <trademark class="registered">OpenOffice</trademark> uses zip archives with the following
     extensions: <literal role="extension">.odt</literal>,
     <literal role="extension">.sxw</literal> and <literal role="extension">.odw</literal>.
     &Enter; will open the
     <trademark class="registered">OpenOffice</trademark> document and the 
     &Right; key will open the archive. Another
     example is J2EE, where the <literal role="extension">.jar</literal> extension means a zip archive.
     Since &krusader; auto-detects the supported archive
     types, it will open with 
     &Right; key even if it has another &MIME; type.
     Please note that browsing archives has a few limitations: 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
         <para>Not all functions are supported by all archive types.
         (&ie;: you can not delete files in ace or rar
         archives)</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>The permissions you have inside the archive are the
         same as the permissions you have for the archive.</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>The command line (if visible) will not follow you
         inside the archive but will point to the archive
         folder.</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>Before any action is performed on files/folders
         inside the archive, they must be extracted. The archive
         will be repacked when you leave it or when
         &krusader; detects that extracted files have
         changed.</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>Packing and un-packing are <quote>blocking operations</quote> that
         display a progress dialog. However, this might change in
         the future since we are planning to create more background
         operations.</para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist></para>
   </sect2>
   <sect2 id="unpacking-archives">
     <title>Unpack Files</title>
     <para>There are 2 ways to extract files from archives:</para>
     <para>If you want to unpack a whole archive(s), browse to the
     archive location, select the archive(s) and select 
       <menuchoice>
         <guimenu>File</guimenu>
         <guimenuitem>Unpack</guimenuitem>
       </menuchoice>
     or 
     <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;&Shift;
     <keycap>U</keycap></keycombo>. &krusader; will ask
     you where to put the extracted files. The default location is
     the inactive panel folder. If you do not cancel the
     operation, &krusader; will try to unpack all the
     selected files in the inactive panel.</para>
     <para>If you only want to extract a part of the archive, then 
     <link linkend="browsing-archives">browse</link> the archive and
     copy the files you want to extract to their new location just
     as you would copy <quote>normal</quote> files. Note that unpacking from a
     browsed archive takes more time (file by file unpack) compared
     to unpacking a whole archive with the first method.
     The unpack operation can be put in a <link linkend="queue">queue</link>.</para>
   </sect2>
   <sect2 id="pack-archive">
     <title>Packing Files</title>
     <para>If you want to create a new archive, begin by selecting
     the elements you want to pack in the active panel and select 
       <menuchoice>
         <guimenu>File</guimenu>
         <guimenuitem>Pack...</guimenuitem>
       </menuchoice>
     or 
     <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;&Shift;
     <keycap>P</keycap></keycombo>. A dialog will pop-up prompting
     you to select the archive name and location. Select the packer
     from one of the 
     <link linkend="konfig-archives">supported file name
     extensions</link>.</para>
     <para>To add files to an existing archive(s), open the archive
     in one panel and the files to be copied in the other panel,
     then simply copy the files into the archive in exactly the same
     way you copy files into a <quote>normal</quote> folder.
     The pack operation can be put in a <link linkend="queue">queue</link>.</para>
   </sect2>
   <sect2 id="test-archive">
     <title>Testing Archives</title>
     <para>&krusader; will not handle corrupted archives since it may
     result in data loss. If you receive an error message when
     opening an archive, or if you suspect that there is something
     wrong with the archive, you should test it before use. To test
     an archive, browse (navigate) to the archive location and
     select the archive. Next select 
       <menuchoice>
         <guimenu>File</guimenu>
         <guimenuitem>Test Archive</guimenuitem>
       </menuchoice>
     or 
     <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;
     <keycap>E</keycap></keycombo>. &krusader; will test
     the archive file and inform you whether the archive passed or
     failed the file integrity test.</para>
   </sect2>
 </sect1>