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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-04-06 06:11:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-04-06 06:11:17 +0000 |
| commit | e24b7b1aafb1f01bcb4758a4a450dade1f6c77ab (patch) | |
| tree | 20f47715823fa1a46d64354ac8e6f3000f039926 /bin/pax/pax.1 | |
| parent | cb80257dd1c3a975ee62c3776c5f25a60cb3e0c6 (diff) | |
Allow creation of archives with block sizes up to 64512 bytes
but complain about non-portability if > 32256 bytes.
Brought up by George Robbins <grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pax/pax.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/pax/pax.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pax/pax.1 b/bin/pax/pax.1 index 38fc183f1b2..590c9dfdd7a 100644 --- a/bin/pax/pax.1 +++ b/bin/pax/pax.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pax.1,v 1.4 1997/02/20 06:54:35 tholo Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pax.1,v 1.5 1997/04/06 06:11:13 millert Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: pax.1,v 1.3 1995/03/21 09:07:37 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Keith Muller. @@ -405,7 +405,10 @@ block the output at a positive decimal integer number of bytes per write to the archive file. The .Ar blocksize -must be a multiple of 512 bytes with a maximum of 32256 bytes. +must be a multiple of 512 bytes with a maximum of 64512 bytes. +Archives larger than 32256 bytes violate the +.Tn POSIX +standard and will not be portable to all systems. A .Ar blocksize can end with |