The Xunzip Handbook

Tero Koskinen, tkoskine@jas.pspt.fi
Version 0.7.3, Jun 5 1998


This Handbook describes Xunzip Version 0.73

1. Introduction

2. Installation

3. Usage

4. NOTICE


1. Introduction

Xunzip is a program for extracting zip and gzip archives. Drag and drop from kfm works even from ftp-server. File uncompressing happens via zlib-functions so zlib is needed.
There is also KDE version of program (kxunzip) if you prefer use KDE.

Tero Koskinen

tkoskine@jas.pspt.fi


2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain Xunzip

Xunzip can be found from http://jas.pspt.fi/~tkoskine/stuff.html.

2.2 Requirements

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install Xunzip on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Xunzip distribution:

% cd gxunzip
% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since Xunzip uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to Tero Koskinen

If you want compile and use KDE version of Xunzip type the following in the base directory of the Xunzip distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

KDE version of Xunzip requires KDE Beta 3 or newer.

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3. Usage

3.1 General usage

Syntax:

% gxunzip file

The 'file' must locate on your computer, in KDE version of Xunzip it is not necessary. When you are opened file, you can extract,test or view its contents.

3.2 Drag and Drop

Xunzip supports drag and drop from other GNOME applications. But because of bug in GTK+ (I think it is in there,I am not sure) it doesn't work perfectly.

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4. NOTICE

Xunzip does support only zip compression algorithms store (0) and deflate (8)! If you need something else you must use another program.

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