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authorkientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-12 23:09:44 +0000
committerkientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-12 23:09:44 +0000
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Update the format descriptions to include ISO9660 and ZIP support.
Also remove some unnecessary blank lines from archive_read.3.
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@@ -219,9 +219,25 @@ It also includes additional shell commands that attempt to reproduce as
many file attributes as possible, including owner, mode, and flags.
The additional commands used to restore file attributes make
shardump archives less portable than plain shar archives.
+.Ss ISO9660 format
+Libarchive can read and extract from files containing ISO9660-compliant
+CDROM images. It also has partial support for Rockridge extensions.
+In many cases, this can remove the need to burn a physical CDROM.
+It also avoids security and complexity issues that come with
+virtual mounts and loopback devices.
+.Ss Zip format
+Libarchive can extract from most zip format archives.
+It currently only supports uncompressed entries and entries
+compressed with the
+.Dq deflate
+algorithm.
+Older zip compression algorithms are not supported.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cpio 1 ,
+.Xr mkisofs 1 ,
.Xr shar 1 ,
.Xr tar 1 ,
+.Xr zip 1 ,
+.Xr zlib 3 ,
.Xr tar 5
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