This is the README for gnochive.

program name: gnochive V 0.7.0
autor name: Lucian Langa
email: cooly@users.sourceforge.net
date: Fri 10 May 2002 02:23:35 PM EEST
homepage: http://gnochive.sourceforge.net

What is gnochive?
=================

gnochive is an archive program for handling all types of archives while
providing an GUI interface.

Creation:			-RAR
=========			-tar (plain,gz,bz2,Z,*custom)
				-single gz,bz2
				-zip
				-lha/lhz
				-zoo
				
			
Open/Extract/View/Test:		-RAR
=======================		-tar (plain,gz,bz2,Z,*custom)
				-single gz,bz2
				-zip
				-arj
				-ace
				-lha/lhz
				-zoo
				-jar(tho jar doesn't need any special handling
				besides normal zip handling)
				-rpm
				-cpio

Update:
=======				-tar (plain,gz,bz2,Z)
				-zip
				-RAR
				-zoo
				-lha/lhz


The program now supports:
    - path checking can be done in the following ways :
		- autodetect archivers
		- test configfile parsed archivers paths
    - extracting
    - creating of archives (gnochive can process the archives 
	automaticly after create)
    - deleting files from archives
    - updating files in archives
    - viewing files in archives
    - testing archive files 
    - adding/removing comments from archives (zip & rar only 
	has support for comments)
    - converting archives to SFX archives (so far RAR only supports it)
    - converting tar archives (eg. tar.gz->tar.bz2)
    - files pass-locking of archives
    - different dictionary size
    - different compresion levels (compress has no support for comp level)
    - nautilus support (gnochive can be used to view/extract/create archives
	using nautilus)

			
How do I set it up?
===================

The file INSTALL gives instructions.  On supported systems the
compilation process should be automatic.

You will need an ANSI C compiler -- gcc is recommended.  Versions
2.7.2/2.7.2.2 are known to work .

You will also need:
    - GTK+ 1.2.0 or above - http://www.gtk.org
    - scrollkeeper 1.4.0 or above - http://download.sourceforge.net/scrollkeeper-1.4.0.tar.gz
    - gnome-vfs, gnome-vfs-devel
    - bonobo (not required so far)

Packers:
========
RAR		- can be found at www.rarsoft.com
		  After unpacking rar (its a SFX archive) you should put the rar file and
		  default.sfx for conversion to SFX of arcives in /usr/bin
gzip/gunzip	-
bzip2/(bunzip)	-
tar		- the latest version of tar does not take flag I for decompressing tbz2
		  files , gnochive has "-j" flag option in the property box
zip/unzip	-
lha		- http://www2m.meshnet.or.jp/~dolphin/lha/lha-unix.htm
zoo		-
unarj		- unarj by default does not support creating subdirectories and verbose
		  listing. So for accessing arj archive it is recommanded a patch for 
		  unarj 2.43 that can be found on gnochive home page. There is also rpm
		  support for patched version of unarj
unace		- linunace 2.04 is needed (www.winace.com)
compress	-


Note: The appplet_widget library is not required anymore gnochive can
be built fine witout it using ./configure --disable-gapplet.
(gnochive applet is just for future developing purposes so it's not 
really necesarly to built it!)

How can I contact the author?
=============================

You can email me at <cooly@users.sourceforge.net>
