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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 |