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| author | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-24 19:58:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-24 19:58:05 +0000 |
| commit | 440e84f59ecf9fa5a2e7f3b372ac4b502fb50d59 (patch) | |
| tree | 44224c2feece9623da92b0abb8c10829f092eb36 /lib | |
| parent | f9e6219b155b907887c532027ac5d64b5a0560b0 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libarchive/tar.5 | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 b/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 index abded0fda129..c4ee23b93329 100644 --- a/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 +++ b/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The library reads and writes a variety of streaming archive formats. Generally speaking, all of these archive formats consist of a series of .Dq entries . -Each entry stores a single filesystem object, such as a file, directory, +Each entry stores a single file system object, such as a file, directory, or symbolic link. .Pp The following provides a brief description of each format supported @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ implementations. A .Dq shell archive is a shell script that, when executed on a POSIX-compliant -system, will recreate a collection of filesystem objects. +system, will recreate a collection of file system objects. The libarchive library can write two different kinds of shar archives: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm shar diff --git a/lib/libarchive/tar.5 b/lib/libarchive/tar.5 index e8aaa37c9d86..163aac4a35aa 100644 --- a/lib/libarchive/tar.5 +++ b/lib/libarchive/tar.5 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The .Nm archive format collects any number of files, directories, and other -filesystem objects (symbolic links, device nodes, etc.) into a single +file system objects (symbolic links, device nodes, etc.) into a single stream of bytes. The format was originally designed to be used with tape drives that operate with fixed-size blocks, but is widely used as @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ a general packaging mechanism. A .Nm archive consists of a series of 512-byte records. -Each filesystem object requires a header record which stores basic metadata +Each file system object requires a header record which stores basic metadata (pathname, owner, permissions, etc.) and zero or more records containing any file data. The end of the archive is indicated by two records consisting |
