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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2023-04-18 11:15:44 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2023-04-18 11:15:44 +0300
commit6a1581240bfccfd12bfe88cb4075ddd0482d879b (patch)
tree0824f15704ca7de2ebf22b23ed6a65af31f5228b
parent4f814e0e4c673f86dc65a557f7e55f6b5efd1529 (diff)
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Change some wording in doc/intern.texi
-rw-r--r--doc/intern.texi7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/intern.texi b/doc/intern.texi
index ba96b69a..52a458eb 100644
--- a/doc/intern.texi
+++ b/doc/intern.texi
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ The @code{uid} and @code{gid} fields are the numeric user and group
not support numeric user or group @acronym{ID}s, these fields should
be ignored.
-The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; linked files
-are archived with this field specified as zero.
+The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; for archive
+members that are symbolic or hard links to another file, this field
+is specified as zero.
The @code{mtime} field represents the data modification time of the file at
the time it was archived. It represents the integer number of
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ the simple sum of all bytes in the header block. Each 8-bit
byte in the header is added to an unsigned integer, initialized to
zero, the precision of which shall be no less than seventeen bits.
When calculating the checksum, the @code{chksum} field is treated as
-if it were all blanks.
+if it were filled with spaces (ASCII 32).
The @code{typeflag} field specifies the type of file archived. If a
particular implementation does not recognize or permit the specified