{ "star", STAR_FORMAT },
#endif
{ "gnu", GNU_FORMAT },
+ { "pax", POSIX_FORMAT }, /* An alias for posix */
{ NULL, 0 }
};
/* NOTE:
- Available option letters are DEIJQY and aenqy. Consider the following
+ Available option letters are DEIJQY and aeqy. Consider the following
assignments:
[For Solaris tar compatibility]
e exit immediately with a nonzero exit status if unexpected errors occur
E use extended headers (--format=posix)
[q alias for --occurrence=1 =/= this would better be used for quiet?]
- n the archive is quickly seekable, so don't worry about random seeks
[I same as T =/= will harm star compatibility]
y per-file gzip compression
N_("do not exit with nonzero on unreadable files"), 21 },
{"occurrence", OCCURRENCE_OPTION, N_("NUMBER"), OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL,
N_("process only the NUMth occurrence of each file in the archive. This option is valid only in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list and when a list of files is given either on the command line or via -T option. NUMBER defaults to 1."), 21 },
-
+ {"seek", 'n', NULL, 0,
+ N_("Archive is seekable"), 21 },
+
{NULL, 0, NULL, 0,
N_("Handling of file attributes:"), 30 },
multi_volume_option = true;
break;
+
+ case 'n':
+ seekable_archive = true;
+ break;
#if !MSDOS
case 'N':