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ARCHIVE_READ_NEW

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NAME

archive_read_new - functions for reading streaming archives  

LIBRARY

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)  

SYNOPSIS

In archive.h Ft struct archive * Fn archive_read_new void  

DESCRIPTION

Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive. NULL is returned on error.

A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).  

SEE ALSO

tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_read_data3, archive_read_filter3, archive_read_format3, archive_read_set_options3, archive_util3, tar(5)


 

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