Gqviewarc is a software tool designed to handle archives for Gqview, a popular image viewer. With this tool, users can easily manage and organize their image archives within the Gqview interface.
Gqviewarc is an LD_PRELOAD module that acts as an archive handler for GQview. It enables GQview to treat archives such as ZIP or RAR like directories, which makes it useful in situations where transparent stream read access to archived files is needed. This module uses external de-archivers like "unzip" and "unrar" to extract data from archives, and you can modify their behavior by modifying the relevant environment variables.
From the application's point of view, all archives with one of the recognized extensions appear as directories. Files in an archive appear in the same directory, ignoring their hierarchy in the archive. The file name includes the path of the archived files, including the forward slashes. A number, followed by a tab character, is added to the beginning of the file name to group files by their directory locations and avoid sorting issues.
To use Gqviewarc, your system must have GQView or a compatible image viewer already installed. You can compile the module by running "make" and then copy the "gqviewarc.so" file to any directory of your choosing (e.g., "/usr/local/lib/"). Next, set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to the path where "gqviewarc.so" is located.
The latest release of Gqviewarc allows you to extract RAR files using either "unrar" or "rar". It also supports child processes created by applications and has improved large file API handling.
Overall, Gqviewarc is a useful module that enhances the functionality of GQview and other image viewers by enabling transparent stream read access to archived files while allowing them to appear as directories.
From the application's point of view, all archives with one of the recognized extensions appear as directories. Files in an archive appear in the same directory, ignoring their hierarchy in the archive. The file name includes the path of the archived files, including the forward slashes. A number, followed by a tab character, is added to the beginning of the file name to group files by their directory locations and avoid sorting issues.
To use Gqviewarc, your system must have GQView or a compatible image viewer already installed. You can compile the module by running "make" and then copy the "gqviewarc.so" file to any directory of your choosing (e.g., "/usr/local/lib/"). Next, set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to the path where "gqviewarc.so" is located.
The latest release of Gqviewarc allows you to extract RAR files using either "unrar" or "rar". It also supports child processes created by applications and has improved large file API handling.
Overall, Gqviewarc is a useful module that enhances the functionality of GQview and other image viewers by enabling transparent stream read access to archived files while allowing them to appear as directories.
What's New
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