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.TH ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT 3 "February 2, 2012" ""
.SH NAME
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_cpio\fP,
\fB\%archive_write_set_format_pax\fP,
\fB\%archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted\fP,
\fB\%archive_write_set_format_shar\fP,
\fB\%archive_write_set_format_shar_dump\fP,
\fB\%archive_write_set_format_ustar\fP
\- functions for creating archives
.SH LIBRARY
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Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fB#include <archive.h>\fP
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\fIint\fP
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_cpio\fP(\fI\%struct\ archive\ *\fP);
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\fIint\fP
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_pax\fP(\fI\%struct\ archive\ *\fP);
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\fIint\fP
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted\fP(\fI\%struct\ archive\ *\fP);
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\fIint\fP
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_shar\fP(\fI\%struct\ archive\ *\fP);
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\fIint\fP
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_shar_dump\fP(\fI\%struct\ archive\ *\fP);
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\fIint\fP
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\fB\%archive_write_set_format_ustar\fP(\fI\%struct\ archive\ *\fP);
.SH DESCRIPTION
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These functions set the format that will be used for the archive.
.PP
The library can write
POSIX octet-oriented cpio format archives,
POSIX-standard
``pax interchange''
format archives,
traditional
``shar''
archives,
enhanced
``dump''
shar archives that store a variety of file attributes and handle binary files,
and
POSIX-standard
``ustar''
archives.
The pax interchange format is a backwards-compatible tar format that
adds key/value attributes to each entry and supports arbitrary
filenames, linknames, uids, sizes, etc.
``Restricted pax interchange format''
is the library default; this is the same as pax format, but suppresses
the pax extended header for most normal files.
In most cases, this will result in ordinary ustar archives.
.SH RETURN VALUES
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These functions return
\fBARCHIVE_OK\fP
on success, or
\fBARCHIVE_FATAL\fP.
.SH ERRORS
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Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the
\fB\%archive_errno\fP()
and
\fB\%archive_error_string\fP()
functions.

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
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cbp-1 | cbp-1
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ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
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Availability	library/libarchive
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Stability	Uncommitted
.TE 
.PP
.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBtar\fP(1),
\fBlibarchive\fP(3),
\fBarchive_write\fP(3),
\fBarchive_write_set_options\fP(3),
\fBcpio\fP(5),
\fBmtree\fP(5),
\fBtar\fP(5)


.SH NOTES

.\" Oracle has added source availability information to this manual page
This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  http://www.libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-3.1.2.tar.gz

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.libarchive.org/.