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diff --git a/system/afio/README b/system/afio/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..51e85268ab --- /dev/null +++ b/system/afio/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Afio makes compressed archives that are safer than compressed tar or +cpio archives, allowing better handling of input data corruption. Afio +also supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. + +Afio makes cpio archives with ASCII-formatted header information (odc). +Where the odc format cannot represent some files and file properties +that could be present on a modern UNIX filesystem, it uses an afio- +specific 'large ASCII' header for the files concerned. |