Package libarchive-2.4.0-1
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10.2 (gcc3.3 only) * | |||
| Description: | Archiver library for tar, pax and others (2.4.0-1) | |||||
Libarchive is a stream-oriented library for variety of archives.
It focuses on tar format and its variants primarily, but can also
read and/or write other families of archive formats.
Following formats are supported ('r' for reading and 'w' for writing).
On read, compression and format are always detected automatically.
[rw] gzip compression
[rw] bzip2 compression
[r ] compress/LZW compression
[r ] GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and
sparse files)
[r ] Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs)
[r ] Old V7 tar archives
[rw] POSIX 1003.1-1988 ustar
[rw] POSIX 1003.1-2001 pax interchange format (indeed extended ustar)
[ w] "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for
entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc).
[rw] POSIX octet-oriented cpio ("odc")
[rw] SVR4 ASCII cpio ("newc")
[r ] Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian)
[r ] ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge extensions)
[r ] ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries)
[ w] shar archives
[rw] GNU and BSD 'ar' archives
[r ] 'mtree' format | ||||||
| Usage Hints: | ||||||
Guide to Documentation installed by this system:
* libarchive.3 gives an overview of the library as a whole
* archive_read.3, archive_write.3, and archive_write_disk.3 provide
detailed calling sequences for the read and write APIs
* archive_entry.3 details the "struct archive_entry" utility class
* libarchive-formats.5 documents the file formats supported by the library
* tar.5 provides some detailed information about a variety of different
"tar" formats. | ||||||
| Section: | libs | |||||
| Maintainer: | AIDA Shinra <shinraATj10nDOTorg> | |||||
| Website: | http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ | |||||
| License: | BSD | |||||
| Info-File: | dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libarchive.info CVS log, Last Changed: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:54:27 (UTC) | |||||
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