Archive support

Note

This information is valid only for MultiArc plugin which comes with the standard distribution of FAR Manager!

For specific archive formats support, MultiArc plugin uses second-level plugins (subplugins) - the so called FMT-modules. These are all the *.FMT files contained within Formats subfolder of MultiArc (but not in subfolders of Formats).

Functions exported by FMT-modules

Function	Description
CloseArchive	Close archive.
GetArcItem	Get the information about the next archive element.
GetDefaultCommands	Get archiver command strings used by default
GetFormatName	Get archive format name.
GetSFXPos	Get the position of the beginning of the archive.
IsArchive	Check whether the specified file is an archive.
LoadFormatModule	Called when a subplugin is loaded.
OpenArchive	Open an archive and prepare it for reading.
SetFarInfo	Passes global settings to the plugin.

Structures used by FMT-modules

Structure	Description
ArcInfo	Common information about an archive
ArcItemInfo	Information about a specific archive element

Remarks

You can use subplugin technology in your own plugins. Examples of such plugins:
- Expression Calculator (Alexey Torgashin)
- Search and Replace (Ivan Sintyurin)
- Address Book (Pavel Kostromitinov)
- Mr.Ripper (Vladimir Kubyshev)

See also:

Exported functions, Service functions, structures, Addons, custom.ini file format