Extracting archives
F2 Commander can read and extract multiple types of archives and compressed files, such ZIP, TAR, XAR, LHA/LZH, ISO 0660 (optical disc files), cpio, mtree, shar, ar, pax, RAR, MS CAB, 7-Zip, WARC, and more - everything supported by libarchive.
To view the file content, navigate and Enter it like any directory.
To extract the files from it, select the relevant files (e.g., + to select
all files in a archive), and copy (c) them out of it. You can also view (v)
the content of the compressed files without extracintg them explicitly.
Compressing the files
To compress multiple files and directories, select all relevant entries and
choose āArchive / compressā from the Command Palette (Ctrl+p).
In the pormpt, change the traget archive file name, if necessary. Note that
target file name extension defines the type of archive and the compression
algorithm. In particular, following extensions are recognized: .tar,
.tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2, .tbz2, .tar.xz, .txz, .zip, .ar,
.xar, .cpio, .pax, .warc, .7z.