3. Usage
Karchiver has been made to be intuitive. All functions
are avaible via the graphical interface.
3.1 Main list
The main list displays the archive content. Click
on a item to select it. Multiselection is allowed. Right click on a item
to display a contextual menu. You can sort by file name, path ... just
by clicking on the column name.
Just drop some files or directories to an "empty"
karchiver to easily create an archive with those files!
Drop them on a loaded archive to add the
files to the archive !
Moreover, drop the selected files of this main list to your file manager
or any other app to extract the files ! This is also avaible with the cutt / copy functions. The cutt function also
delete the selected files from the archive.
Select "display" in the contextual menu to view the current selectde file. It is opened
with its associated program (kview for images, kedit for texts ...)
3.2 Archive menu
This menu allow you to add, remove, extract or view
all the selected files of the archive. You can also launch from here a
wizard
3.3 Configuration menu
This menu lets you to specify the compressors options
(compress rate, icon size, multiselection mode...), and the default directories (when opening
or extracting archives), and much more settings.
3.4 Disk menu
How to put a 3Mb file on floppy disks? Via the split
menu command. It generates .01, .02 ... files of 1.4Mb
The reverse operation is Unsplit, just select
the .01 file and it is automaticaly unsplitted and then opened in Karchiver.