On 2007-05-19 21:25, Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :) _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
