- Ark (computing)
Infobox Software
name = Ark
caption = A screenshot of Ark in KDE 4.1
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developer = Rob Palmbos, Francois-Xavier Duranceau, Emily Ezust, Roberto Selbach Teixeira, Helio Castro, Georg Robbers, Henrique Pinto
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latest release version = 2.10.999
latest release date = release date and age|2008|09|3
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
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programming language =C++ Qt
operating system =Cross-platform
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genre =File archiver
license = GPL
website = [http://utils.kde.org/projects/ark utils.kde.org]Ark is an archiving tool for
KDE , included into "kdeutils" package.Features
*Ark does not intrinsically understand any archive format, but instead acts as a
frontend to command-line archivers. It can work with many backends, including 7z, tar, rar, zip, gzip, bzip2, lha, zoo, and ar.
*Ark can be integrated intoKonqueror , throughKPart s technology, if the appropriate plugin from "kdeaddons" package is installed. After installing it, files can be added or extracted in/from the archives using Konqueror's context menus.
*Support for editing files in archive with external programs. Files can also be deleted from the archive.
*Archives creation withdrag and drop .See also
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Comparison of file archivers
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