YASR ("Yet Another Screen Reader") is an attempt at a lightweight,
portable screen reader. It works by opening a shell in a pty and
intercepting all user input/output, maintaining a window of what
should be on the screen by looking at the codes and text sent to the
screen. It thus uses no Linuxisms such as /dev/vcsa0 and does not
necessarily need to be setuid root (the only requirement being that
the user be able to access the tts device).
This package creates and extracts-from ARC archives. An ARC archive
contains files which are compressed according to the most efficient
of three algorithms. ARC archives are usually only used for compatibility
with MS-DOS.
This is open source implementation of the world-famous ARJ archiver. This
version has been created with an intent to preserve maximum compatibility
and retain the feature set of the original ARJ archiver as provided by ARJ
Software, Inc.
New ARJ features on Unix-like platforms:
- Support for symbolic and hard links
- Archiving of special entities: pipes and devices
- Support for UID/GID storage in a variety of methods
- World's smallest native self-extracting modules
- Interoperability with ARJ for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 Warp
Fastjar is a version of Sun's `jar' utility, written entirely in C, and
therefore quite a bit faster. Fastjar can be up to 100x faster than the
stock `jar' program running without a JIT. Currently, the author is
working on adding all the features present in the Sun utility. At the
moment, implemented features are:
* Archive creation
* Verbose/quiet output
* stdout vs. file output
* Manifest file support
* Deflation or storage
* Changing to directory and adding files (-C)
* Archive content listing (-t)
* Archive extraction (-x)
File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. It is only a
front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip.
The supported file types are:
* Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz),
bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z , .taz),
lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
* Zip archives (.zip)
* Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
* Lha archives (.lzh)
* Rar archives (.rar)
* Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop
File Roller also has a document viewer based on bonobo that lets you view files
of any type for which you have a viewer.
Former WinZip users may find this program useful. It serves the same purpose.
Dynamite is a tool and library for decompressing data compressed with the
PKWARE Data Compression Library.
Libpar2 is a library for manipulating par2 files, extracted from par2cmdline
Libpar2 is a library for creating and using PAR2 files to detect
damage in data files and repair them if necessary. It can be used with
any kind of file. Par files are especially popular on Usenet.
librtfcomp is a library for handling compressed RTF documents.
This package includes a thin wrapper library of LZMA SDK.
Parity Archive
parchive uses Reed-Solomon coding to make multiple parity volumes from
the same set of files. What this means is that you can recover as
many files as you have recovery volumes. Any recovery volumes for
that set will do.