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This is a **roadmap** page, intended to provide an annotated catalog or guide to other pages.

Local pages

 * ArcCompTools .. an outline of a KPLUG mini presentation that gives some brieg general background on archiving and compression, and then discusses some Linux gui tools.


 * http://www.kernel-panic.org/Members/jgsack/pages/TarballsXH2 .. an *express howto* for the most common commandline tar.gz (or tgz) operations.


Other links

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats .. excellent starting point article

 * http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/coding/gzrt/gzrt.html The gzip Recovery Toolkit .. unreviewed, but sounds interesting
 

Subtopics needing elaboration

 * zip encryption .. weak, use gpg for strong

 * archive-aware commandline tools (many)

  * cat, cmp, diff, [e]grep, less, ..

  * other tools .. (content) info, ..


..what else?..