The KDE ark Archiving Tool
You launch ark by launching it from the command line. It is integrated with the KDE desktop (such as File Roller is with GNOME), so it might be a better choice if you use KDE. This application provides a graphical interface for viewing, creating, adding to, and extracting from archived files. Several configuration options are available with ark to ensure its compatibility with Microsoft Windows. You can drag and drop from the KDE desktop or Konqueror file browser to add or extract files, or you can use the ark menus.
As long as the associated command-line programs are installed, ark can work with tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, and lha files (the last four being compression methods used to save space by compaction of the archived ...
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