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6 ark - A KDE archiving tool
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9 ark [--extract--extract-to--add--add-to--guess-name] [folder] [files]
10 [archive] [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]
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14 Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE
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17 gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are
18 installed). Ark can work closely with Konqueror in the KDE environment
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25 Open extract dialog, quit when finished
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29 Extract archive to folder. Quit when finished. folder will be
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34 Ask for the name of the archive to add files to. Quit when fin‐
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38 --add-to files archive
39 Add files to archive. Quit when finished. archive will be creat‐
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50 $PATH The commandline programs to deal with the archives you wish to
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55 ark --extract-to --guess-name . An-Archive.tar.bz2
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66 tar(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zip(1), rar(1), lha(1)
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69 More detailed user documentation is available from help:/ark (either
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74 Ark is maintained by Henrique Pinto <stampede@coltec.ufmg.br>
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77 This man page was written by Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> for KDE 3.4.
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85K Desktop Environment February 25, 2005 ARK(1)