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diff --git a/system/patool/README b/system/patool/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..643ac3596401 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/patool/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Patool is a portable archive file manager + +Various archive types can be created, extracted, tested, listed, compared, +searched and repacked with patool. + +The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files +without having to remember a myriad of programs and options. + +The archive format is determined by the file(1) program and as a fallback +by the archive file extension. + +patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz), APE (.ape), +AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), COMPRESS (.Z), +CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), FLAC (.flac), GZIP (.gz), LRZIP (.lrz), +LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), +RAR (.rar), RZIP (.rz), SHN (.shn), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar) +and ZOO (.zoo) formats. It relies on helper applications to handle those +archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives). |