The Action Zone is generally composed of the following buttons :
These buttons are located at the bottom of the command dialogs.
ARCHIVE THE SELECTION
First, you have to specify the name of the archive (it's recommended to use the suffix .tar for a standard archive and .tar.gz or .tgz for a gziped one).
The available options are :
EXTRACT THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST FILE OF THE SELECTION (MUST BE AN ARCHIVE)
The only available option is :
COMPRESS THE SELECTION USING GZIP
The available options are :
NOTE : This will not create an archive is used on multiple files
UNCOMPRESS THE SELECTION USING GUNZIP
The available options are :
UUENCODE THE FIRST ITEM OF THE SELECTION
This command is mostly used to send binary files as text files. You have to specify the following informations :
UUDECODE THE FIRST ITEM OF THE SELECTION
This command is mostly used to restore binary files from text files. You don't have to specify any information.
SPLIT THE FIRST FILE OF THE SELECTION IN FIXED SIZE FILES
This command lets you make multiple volume archives. This is a safer solution than the multivolume tar archives.
The options are :
RESTORE A LARGE FILE FROM THE FILES OF THE SELECTION
You have to specify the destination file in the text field.
The list at the left of the dialog shows the current order of the selected files (the topmost file is the first one).
You can change the order of the source files using the following buttons :
NOTE : The Unix command executed is :
cat file1 file2 file3 ... > destination