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diff --git a/system/xar/slack-desc b/system/xar/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1e2dc082cb --- /dev/null +++ b/system/xar/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +xar: xar (eXtensible ARchiver) +xar: +xar: The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive +xar: format. Important design decisions include an easily extensible XML +xar: table of contents (TOC) for random access to archived files, storing +xar: the TOC at the beginning of the archive to allow for efficient +xar: handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files of +xar: arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings +xar: for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums +xar: for individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the +xar: ability to query the table of content's rich meta-data. |