On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 09:01 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > > I believe this is what you refer to as Ark. > > Yes. > > >From its HELP:- > Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE > environment. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified > from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, > gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are > installed). Ark can work closely with Konqueror in the KDE environment > to handle archives, if you install the Konqueror Integration plugin > available in the kdeaddons package. > > I'm curious to know whether there is an alternative, i.e. another > method, to view, retrieve and re-add file after edited without > decompressing it. > So Ark is the KDE equivalent of the Gnome file-roller. I learned something there :-) How do you think it would be possible to edit a file in-place within a compressed tarball? You can extract it and make the changes, then the utilities have the ability to replace the file in the archive. This does change the archive though. > TIA > > B.R. > SL >
