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      type="guide"
      id="introduction">

  <info>
    <title type="sort" its:translate="no">1</title>
    <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.4" date="2012-01-18" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.6" date="2012-08-05" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-25" status="candidate"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-03-23" status="candidate"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.34" date="2020-02-09" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Marta Bogdanowicz</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>

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    <desc>Introduction to the GNOME <app>File Roller</app>.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Introduction</title>

  <p><app>File Roller</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>File Roller</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>File Roller</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>

</page>