# 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------------------------------------------------------| afio: afio (archiver and backup program with internal compression support) afio: afio: Afio can make compressed archives that are safer than compressed tar afio: or cpio archives, allowing better handling of input data corruption. afio: Afio also supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. afio: afio: Afio makes cpio archives with ASCII-formatted header information (odc) afio: Where the odc format cannot represent some files and file properties afio: that could be present on a modern UNIX filesystem, it uses an afio- afio: specific 'large ASCII' header for the files concerned. afio: