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    <revision pkgversion="3.4" date="2012-01-18" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.6" date="2012-08-05" status="review"/>
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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Marta Bogdanowicz</name>
      <email>majus85@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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    <desc>Introduction to the GNOME <app>Archive Manager</app>.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Sarrera</title>

  <p><app>Archive Manager</app> is an application for managing archive files,
  for example, <file>.zip</file> or <file>.tar</file> files; it is designed to
  be easy to use. <app>Archive Manager</app> provides all the tools that are
  necessary for creating, modifying and extracting archives.</p>

  <note style="advanced">
    <p>An archive consists of one or more files and folders, along with
    metadata. It may be encrypted in part or as a whole. Archive files are
    useful for storing data and transferring it between computers as they allow
    you to collect multiple files into one.</p>
  </note>

  <p>With <app>Archive Manager</app> you can:</p>
  <list>
    <item><p>create a new archive</p></item>
    <item><p>view the content of an existing archive</p></item>
    <item><p>view a file contained in an archive</p></item>
    <item><p>modify existing archives</p></item>
    <item><p>extract files from an archive</p></item>
  </list>

  <figure>
    <title>Viewing an archive with <gui>Archive Manager</gui></title>
    <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/file-roller-main-window.png">
    <p>Screenshot of the <app>Archive Manager</app> main window.</p>
    </media>
  </figure>

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