FAR Manager Support

The FAR Manager is a good file manager working in text mode. You can download "FAR Manager" from site:

http://www.rarlab.com

There are two ways to use 7-Zip with FAR Manager:

• Via 7-Zip FAR Plugin (it's recommended way).
• Via standard MultiArc Plugin.

7-Zip FAR Plugin

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 ...\Program Files\7-Zip\Far folder to created folder.
3. 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

If you want use 7-Zip via MultiArc Plugin you must register file far7z.reg.

If you want 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.