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    1 Subject: Afio archiver version 2.5.2
    2 Keywords: backup  archiver  compressed  fault tolerant  afio  cpio
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    4 
    5 * WHAT IS AFIO?
    6 
    7 Afio is an archiver/backup program that produces cpio-format archives.
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    9 Like tar, afio can make compressed archives.  However, the compressed
   10 archives produced by afio are much safer than tar -z archives.  If a
   11 tar -z archive has a read error, tar is unable to extract the files
   12 beyond this error.  The compressed archive format used by afio allows
   13 it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file.
   14 
   15 * WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 2.5.2?
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   17 The main changes with respect to version 2.5.1 are:
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   19 - security improvements for the handling of archives from unstrusted
   20   sources
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   22 - when making multivolume archives, added %V feature to include the
   23   volume number in subsequent volume file names
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   25 - various bug and portability fixes
   26 
   27 * WHERE DO I GET IT?
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   29 The afio home page is at:
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   31   http://members.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio.html
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   33 Version 2.5.2 is at:
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   35   http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio-2.5.2.tgz
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   37 And at
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   39   http://freecode.com/projects/afio