From: Andres Mejia Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:09:54 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Include some basic notes about RAR format support in libarchive. X-Git-Tag: v3.0.2~43 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9de8f8aff0f0f4f7f99ad208b0b520d39b66e38;p=thirdparty%2Flibarchive.git Include some basic notes about RAR format support in libarchive. SVN-Revision: 3931 --- diff --git a/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 b/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 index 0acdb50c2..bd6bfe743 100644 --- a/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 +++ b/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5 @@ -342,6 +342,12 @@ using libarchive. If it cannot locate and open the file on disk, libarchive will return an error for any attempt to read the entry body. +.Ss RAR +libarchive has limited support to read files in RAR format. Currently, +libarchive can read single RAR files in RARv3 format which have been either +created uncompressed, or compressed using any of the compression methods +supported by the RARv3 format. libarchive can also extract RAR files which have +been created as self-extracting RAR files. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ar 1 , .Xr cpio 1 ,