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| author | Ruari Oedegaard <sbo@ruari.com> | 2012-08-11 14:20:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2012-08-14 22:30:49 -0500 |
| commit | 7c4462dd7684741dc54da555e82cde7939a417aa (patch) | |
| tree | 82e88296d6638afd7bb6699d9cb3392a6b673e2d /system/afio/README | |
| parent | 04f1f5397a2610313f343cf6184f501abb194c04 (diff) | |
system/afio: Added (archiver program)
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/afio/README b/system/afio/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..51e85268abeca --- /dev/null +++ b/system/afio/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Afio makes compressed archives that are safer than compressed tar or +cpio archives, allowing better handling of input data corruption. Afio +also supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. + +Afio makes cpio archives with ASCII-formatted header information (odc). +Where the odc format cannot represent some files and file properties +that could be present on a modern UNIX filesystem, it uses an afio- +specific 'large ASCII' header for the files concerned. |