How to produce archives?

To pack and unpack files, you need special pack programs like pkzip.exe, pkunzip.exe, arj.exe, lha.exe, rar.exe, uc.exe and ace.exe. Total Commander can act as a shell for these programs. Additionally Total Commander contains a Pkzip-compatible internal packer, which supports nearly all functions of pkzip, even the creation of multi-volume ZIP files! Only the encryption isn't supported because of the restrictive US export laws. The packer is based on Zlib by Jean-loup Gailly. The C source is freely available at the following ftp address on the Internet: ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip

.CAB archives can only be unpacked, NOT created by Total Commander.
Additional packer plugins are available on our addons page on http://www.ghisler.com.
New in version 5.0: Internal .TAR, .GZ and .TGZ packer! .TGZ directly creates a .TAR file inside a .GZ file in one operation.