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authorB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-11-28 00:18:28 -0500
committerB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-11-28 00:18:28 -0500
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downloadunalf-802b5a0760179d9a5fd2d241745733c42a67fcc4.tar.gz
Update unalf man page.
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
.\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
.in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u
..
-.TH "UNALF" 1 "2025-11-27" "0.2.0" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools"
+.TH "UNALF" 1 "2025-11-28" "0.2.0" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools"
.SH NAME
unalf \- extract Atari 8-bit ALF archives
.\" RST source for unalf(1) man page. Convert with:
@@ -288,15 +288,16 @@ Self\-explanatory. The ALF file ends before the compressed data does.
\fBunalf\fP will continue after these messages occur.
.INDENT 0.0
.TP
-.B \fBjunk at EOF (ignored)\fP
+.B \fBjunk at EOF (ignoring)\fP
+Mostly harmless: does \fInot\fP imply data corruption.
+.sp
Usually this is caused by the .alf file being stored on a CP/M disk
at some time, or by a dumb file transfer protocol. Either way, the
file gets padded to the block size of the filesystem or protocol.
Usually, the padding characters are \fB0x1a\fP, aka ASCII control\-Z.
.sp
-If you see this message, you can ignore it. It\(aqs intended to let
-you know that this .alf file can\(aqt be appended to by the
-\fBLZ.COM\fP (aka \fBALF.COM\fP) Atari utility.
+This message means you can\(aqt append to the ALF file with \fBalf \-a\fP
+or \fBLZ.COM\fP\&. You can, however, use \fBunalf \-f\fP to remove the junk.
.TP
.B \fBchecksum error on\fP \fI<file>\fP
The archive is corrupt. If \fI<file>\fP is a text file, it may be