Add-ons
Add-ons
Add-ons are applications that can perform operations on individual files or on a set of files. They're a way of adding things to a program that weren't included when it was written. Three add-ons come with BeOS: Backgrounds, FileTypes, and Zip-O-Matic.
Both the desktop and Tracker provide access to your system's add-on through their context menus, as explained in The Desktop Context Menu and Playing with Files and Folders.
There are a number of third-party add-ons available from BeWare (http://www.be.com/beware/Add-Ons.html) for doing such things as viewing archives, expanding and compressing files, viewing file attributes, searching file contents, and so on.