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Date:      Sat, 19 May 2007 21:25:28 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@optusnet.com.au>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8
Message-ID:  <464FCDB8.9050700@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070520023345.GB2239@kobe.laptop>
References:  <200705181357.l4IDvHIP099048@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070518204131.GA50910@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070518205340.GA36079@kobe.laptop> <20070519073416.L44599@delplex.bde.org> <20070520023345.GB2239@kobe.laptop>

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>>>>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?

Tim Kientzle



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