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Add-ons & Workers

> Add-ons, also referred to as archivers are independent modules that handle various archive types. Add-ons are named "ark_zip", "ark_tar" etc. Additional add-ons maybe written to support more archive formats.

> Workers in Beezer are those command-line programs that physically manipulate the archives, such as zip, unzip, tar etc. Workers are placed in the `workers` folder and in general you must NOT rename or delete any of them. By default they are all symbolic links that point to the location where the actual command-line program is suppose to reside. If you find "broken" links in this folder that means, either you don't have the command-line program installed or you have it installed in someother location. To fix this, either install the command-line program in the place where the link points to, or replace the link itself by a copy of the program.

> The reason why workers are made as symbolic links is because, in case a future version of the worker binary BREAKS compatibility with Beezer, you can use the older version by replacing the symbolic link with the older version file.

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