Tomas Hajny:

> There are 3rd party Pascal units supporting work with
> other archive formats (mostly listing and decompression)
> either using shared libraries, or containing direct
> implementation of certain functionality (there has been
> e.g. unrar.pas containing a port of the original C
> implementation to Pascal, although it wouldn't support
> current RAR format versions) and which might be compiled
> with FPC rather easily, but you're on your own there, of
> course.

As a last resort, one might invoke the required archiver
executable, passing to it any necessary parameters.  Far
Manager's MultiArc universal plugin works exactly that way,
and is easily configurable via invocation patterns with
macros.

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