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kientzle
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Oct 1, 2022
| The SVR4 portable cpio format. | ||
| .It Ar pwb | ||
| PWB binary cpio format is the original format, | ||
| when cpio was introduced as part of the |
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I suggest replacing this line with simply "from the"
| @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ | |||
| .Nm | |||
| copies files between archives and directories. | |||
| This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip, jar, ar, | |||
| and ISO 9660 cdrom images and can create tar, pax, cpio, ar, | |||
| and ISO 9660 cdrom images and can create tar, cpio, ar, | |||
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Please put back the reference to pax format, which is supported by bsdcpio.
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We should update the help message also, it seems. In reality, that option allows any format supported by libarchive:
r = archive_write_set_format_by_name(cpio->archive, cpio->format);
| .It Ar pax | ||
| The POSIX.1 pax format, an extension of the ustar format. | ||
| .It Ar newc | ||
| The SVR4 portable cpio format. |
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Please put back the description of pax format here.
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Adapt bsdcpio manpage to available formats.
libarchive/cpio/cpio.c
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