cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sun May 20 06:59:38 UTC 2007


On 2007-05-19 21:25, Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>An interesting trick is that bsdtar can read ISO files without
>>>>>needing to mount them - I wonder if a cross-reference is
>>>>>appropriate.
>>>Even bsdtar itself doesn't document this explicitly, at least in 6.2.
>>>It points to libarchive(5) for the complete list of supported formats.
> 
> Excellent point.  Perhaps we should modify the first
> paragraph of bsdtar.1 to read:
> 
>  DESCRIPTION
>    tar creates and manipulates streaming archive files.
>    This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio,
>    zip, jar, ar, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images and can create
>    tar, pax, cpio, ar, and shar archives.
> 
> Maybe add an example as well:
> 
>    To examine the contents of an ISO 9660 CD-ROM image:
>         tar -tf image.iso
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds great to me :)



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