BeWare Highlight: Xplode (Browser add-on)

Add-ons allow you to extend the functionality of the Browser (soon to be called Tracker). Installing a Browser add-on is simple. Open your System folder in which you will find the add-ons folder. Inside the add-ons folder is a Browser folder. Place the add-on here and it is available for your use immediately.

Now that you're using Kftp from our first BeWare Highlight, Xplode is the next tool you'll really want. Xplode, an example of a very useful Browser add-on, is a toolchest full of decoding software.

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When you download a file from the BeWare archive, typically it's compressed using one of a number of formats (usually Zip or Gzip) and then also archived using Tar. Xplode decodes these file formats with one swift move of the mouse.

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Xplode will decode tar, gzip, lha, zip, and zoo archives. In fact, you can select multiple files, regardless of archive type, and Xplode them all at the same time. Xplode was written by Jim Robbins "in a couple of evenings" and requires a modest shareware fee of $3.

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Availability: Available Now!
Web Page: http://www.iastate.edu/~robbins/be
FTP Site: ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/contrib/add-ons/browser/Xplode.zip
Cost: Shareware ($3)
Contact: Jim Robbins, robbins@iastate.edu