Sun Microsystems 2.1 manual Content Loading

the last argument in the command line if the b option is after the f option. <blknum> immediately follows the option list if the b option precedes the f option.

w

Prompts you before overwriting already-existing content.

The f argument, which precedes a source tar file or device, is required for all smc_tar commands.

When writing to a tar file or device (c option), you are moving data from an MFS to a tar device. When extracting from a tar file or device (x option), you are moving data from a tar device to an MFS.

5.3.2Content Loading

Before performing its file-loading function (x option), smc_tar performs parsing of the TOC file and error checking on the index files. If it detects a value in one of these files that implies an encoding error in a data file, it returns an error and exits. If smc_tar proceeds with and completes file installation, it indicates that the content has been formatted correctly for use on the Sun MediaCenter server.

The content-loading function of smc_tar is illustrated in FIGURE 5-1.

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