• Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    asrael22
    Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11
    From: Germany
    Quote:

    jPV wrote:
    XAD is also used when you browse into an archive from Ambient, you can double click the archive and copy files from it that way too.

    I think that XAD is somehow underrated and ignored many times, but I find it pretty great invention.

    You can unarchive about any archive with the same command ("XADUnFile archive dest:" in the simpliest form) and no need to re-learn syntax of every format specific command every time you happen to need it :) XAD can unpack zip, gzip, tar, lzx, lha, bzip2, rar, xz, and about 100 other formats just with a single command... and XAD has also made possible to browsing into all kinds of archives for example with Ambient and DOpus... we would miss a lot without it.



    If I'm not completely mistaken, then 'The Unarchiver' on macOS (which I'm using regularly) uses XAD as well.


    Manfred
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