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| author | kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-03 05:34:36 +0000 |
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| committer | kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-03 05:34:36 +0000 |
| commit | b356476feba52a0a45c8e89ebac5d6724a4e6d78 (patch) | |
| tree | ee7ab4b960264dddb2ad2c445c0e861e145e0ca2 /lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 | |
| parent | ba7e53058343ca70fa1013a3af10139eac74e8c4 (diff) | |
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'ar' format support for libarchive, contributed by Kai Wang.
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diff --git a/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 b/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 index dbd9469..dcd45e8 100644 --- a/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 +++ b/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 @@ -235,7 +235,23 @@ compressed with the .Dq deflate algorithm. Older zip compression algorithms are not supported. +.Ss Archive (library) file format +The Unix archives (commonly created by the +.Xr ar 1 +archiver) are mainly used as libraries of object files intended to +be loaded using the link-editor +.Xr ld 1 . +Altough it is capable of creating archives for any purpose, +nowadays it is used only to create static libraries and +for other purpose, +.Xr tar 1 +is the prefered way. The ar format has never been standardised, +currently there exist two commonly used format, one is +the GNU variant derived from SVR4, the other is the +BSD format first appeared in 4.4BSD. +Libarchive provides read and write support for both two variants. .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ar 1 , .Xr cpio 1 , .Xr mkisofs 1 , .Xr shar 1 , |
