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diff --git a/archivers/gcpio/pkg-descr b/archivers/gcpio/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..62575ed173ff --- /dev/null +++ b/archivers/gcpio/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The +archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. + +GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, +new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 +tar. The tar format is provided for compatibility with the tar +program. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, for +compatibility with older cpio programs. When extracting from +archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it +is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different +byte-order. + +Note that this port will install these utilities with a 'g' prefix, +e.g. gcpio, but the texinfo documentation will refer to them without +the 'g' prefix. + +WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/ |