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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