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				<span class="application">Xarchiver</span> is a small and lightweight archive manager.
				I developed it to manage archives without depending from a special Desktop Environment
				like KDE or GNOME, so <span class="application">Xarchiver</span> requires only the GTK+2 toolkit
				to work. The package <i>xdg-utils</i> is optional.
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				<span class="application">Xarchiver presents the following characteristic:</span>:
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					<li>Archive directories can be browsed just like a file manager</li>
					<li>Mime icon for each of the archive entries</li>
					<li>The most used archiver cmd-line options are supported in the Add and Extract dialogs</li>
					<li>Tabs Firefox style support</li>
					<li>Multi-extract facility</li>
					<li>Dump of the whole archive content as HTML or text file</li>
					<li>Context menu on each of the archive entries with cut/copy/paste/rename abilities</li>
					<li>Archives are detected by their magic header and not by the extension except for .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz</li>
					<li>Drag and drop from and to Xarchiver window</li>
					<li>Progress window when using Xarchiver from the cmd-line or from a file-manager</li>
					<li>ARJ, RAR and ZIP archive comment are supported</li>
					<li>Ability to convert the archive to self-extracting for those archive types which support it</li>
					<li>Smart detection of arj, zip and rar password encrypted archives</li>
					<li>All the the output of the cmd-line archiver is displayed in the Xarchiver window</li>
					<li>All common formats are supported: arj, bzip2, gzip, lha, lzma, 7z, rar, tar, tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.lzma, tar.lzop, zip, deb and rpm packages (open and extract only)</li>
					<li>Deb and Rpm packages are handled internally, their package managers are NOT required.</li>
					<li>Zip, rar, arj and 7z password encrypted archives are fully supported (7z automatic password detection is not supported)</li>
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