| 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager | |
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| FAR Manager is a file manager working in text mode. | |
| You can download "FAR Manager" from site: | |
| http://www.farmanager.com | |
| Files: | |
| far7z.txt - This file | |
| far7z.reg - Regisrty file for MultiArc Plugin | |
| 7zToFar.ini - Supporting 7z for MultiArc Plugin | |
| 7-ZipFar.dll - 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager | |
| 7-ZipEng.hlf - Help file in English for FAR Manager | |
| 7-ZipRus.hlf - Help file in Russian for FAR Manager | |
| 7-ZipEng.lng - Plugin message strings in English for FAR Manager | |
| 7-ZipRus.lng - Plugin message strings in Russian for FAR Manager | |
| There are two ways to use 7-Zip with FAR Manager: | |
| 1) Via 7-Zip FAR Plugin (it's recommended way). | |
| 2) Via standard MultiArc Plugin. | |
| 7-Zip FAR Plugin | |
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| 7-Zip FAR Plugin is first level plugin for FAR Manager, like MultiArc plugin. | |
| It very fast extracts and updates files in archive, since it doesn't use | |
| external programs. It supports all formats supported by 7-Zip: | |
| 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. | |
| To install 7-Zip FAR Plugin: | |
| 1) Create "7-Zip" folder in ...\Program Files\Far\Plugins folder. | |
| 2) Copy all files from "FAR" folder of this package to created folder. | |
| 3) Install 7-Zip, or copy 7z.dll from 7-Zip to Program Files\Far\Plugins\7-Zip\ | |
| 4) Restart FAR. | |
| Also you must enable "OEM plugin support" option in FAR Manager: | |
| 1) F9 / Options / Plugins manager settings / check on "OEM plugin support". | |
| 2) F9 / Options / Save setup. | |
| 4) Restart FAR | |
| You can open archives with one of the following ways: | |
| * Pressing Enter. | |
| * Pressing Ctrl-PgDown. | |
| * Pressing F11 and selecting 7-Zip item. | |
| You can create new archives with 7-Zip by pressing F11 and | |
| selecting 7-Zip (add to archive) item. | |
| If you think that some operations with archives is better to do with MultiArc Plugin, | |
| you can disable 7-Zip plugin via Options / Pligin configuration / 7-Zip. In such mode | |
| opening archives by pressing Enter and Ctrl-PgDown will start MultiArc Plugin. And | |
| if you want to open archive with 7-Zip, press F11 and select 7-Zip item. | |
| Using command line 7-Zip via MultiArc Plugin | |
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| If you want to use 7-Zip via MultiArc Plugin, you must | |
| register file far7z.reg. | |
| If you want to use 7z archives via MultiArc Plugin, you must | |
| append contents of file Far\7zToFar.ini to file | |
| ..\Program Files\Far\Plugins\MultiArc\Formats\Custom.ini. | |
| If you want to cancel using 7-Zip by MultiArc, just remove lines that contain | |
| 7-Zip (7z) program name from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Far\Plugins\MultiArc\ZIP | |
| registry key. | |