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| 1# Welcome to libarchive! 2 3The libarchive project develops a portable, efficient C library that 4can read and write streaming archives in a variety of formats. It 5also includes implementations of the common `tar`, `cpio`, and `zcat` 6command-line tools that use the libarchive library. 7 8## Questions? Issues? --- 85 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 94 * uuencoded files 95 * files with RPM wrapper 96 * gzip compression 97 * bzip2 compression 98 * compress/LZW compression 99 * lzma, lzip, and xz compression 100 * lz4 compression 101 * lzop compression | 1# Welcome to libarchive! 2 3The libarchive project develops a portable, efficient C library that 4can read and write streaming archives in a variety of formats. It 5also includes implementations of the common `tar`, `cpio`, and `zcat` 6command-line tools that use the libarchive library. 7 8## Questions? Issues? --- 85 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 94 * uuencoded files 95 * files with RPM wrapper 96 * gzip compression 97 * bzip2 compression 98 * compress/LZW compression 99 * lzma, lzip, and xz compression 100 * lz4 compression 101 * lzop compression |
| 102 * zstandard compression |
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| 102 103The library can create archives in any of the following formats: 104 * POSIX ustar 105 * POSIX pax interchange format 106 * "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for 107 entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc). 108 * Old GNU tar format 109 * Old V7 tar format --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 120When creating archives, the result can be filtered with any of the following: 121 * uuencode 122 * gzip compression 123 * bzip2 compression 124 * compress/LZW compression 125 * lzma, lzip, and xz compression 126 * lz4 compression 127 * lzop compression | 103 104The library can create archives in any of the following formats: 105 * POSIX ustar 106 * POSIX pax interchange format 107 * "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for 108 entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc). 109 * Old GNU tar format 110 * Old V7 tar format --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 121When creating archives, the result can be filtered with any of the following: 122 * uuencode 123 * gzip compression 124 * bzip2 compression 125 * compress/LZW compression 126 * lzma, lzip, and xz compression 127 * lz4 compression 128 * lzop compression |
| 129 * zstandard compression |
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| 128 129## Notes about the Library Design 130 131The following notes address many of the most common 132questions we are asked about libarchive: 133 134* This is a heavily stream-oriented system. That means that 135 it is optimized to read or write the archive in a single --- 18 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 154* The library is designed to be extended with new compression and 155 archive formats. The only requirement is that the format be 156 readable or writable as a stream and that each archive entry be 157 independent. There are articles on the libarchive Wiki explaining 158 how to extend libarchive. 159 160* On read, compression and format are always detected automatically. 161 | 130 131## Notes about the Library Design 132 133The following notes address many of the most common 134questions we are asked about libarchive: 135 136* This is a heavily stream-oriented system. That means that 137 it is optimized to read or write the archive in a single --- 18 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 156* The library is designed to be extended with new compression and 157 archive formats. The only requirement is that the format be 158 readable or writable as a stream and that each archive entry be 159 independent. There are articles on the libarchive Wiki explaining 160 how to extend libarchive. 161 162* On read, compression and format are always detected automatically. 163 |
| 162* The same API is used for all formats; in particular, it's very | 164* The same API is used for all formats; it should be very |
| 163 easy for software using libarchive to transparently handle 164 any of libarchive's archiving formats. 165 166* Libarchive's automatic support for decompression can be used 167 without archiving by explicitly selecting the "raw" and "empty" 168 formats. 169 170* I've attempted to minimize static link pollution. If you don't --- 52 unchanged lines hidden --- | 165 easy for software using libarchive to transparently handle 166 any of libarchive's archiving formats. 167 168* Libarchive's automatic support for decompression can be used 169 without archiving by explicitly selecting the "raw" and "empty" 170 formats. 171 172* I've attempted to minimize static link pollution. If you don't --- 52 unchanged lines hidden --- |