editorial (not a proper ar archive)

[rrq/fusefile.git] / fusefile.8

diff --git a/fusefile.8 b/fusefile.8
index 7051d94aa5277aee40ce2bf6070d685f5e5e5eb0..4baf0a98a08dc55790b0383ecee6514f8d2307b3 100644 (file)
--- a/fusefile.8
+++ b/fusefile.8
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ file changes or reduces in size, anything may happen.
 If the mountpoint file doesn't exist, then \fBfusefile\fR creates it,
 and removes it when unmounted.
 
-When a "pad" file is used, it is updated as an "ar" archive where each
-write event is a new member appended at the end. The "pad" member has
-two additional, newline-terminated text lines with the insertion
-position and the member size (ascii decimal digits), before the actual
-insertion event content.
+When a "pad" file is used, it is updated as a simple archive where
+each write event is a new member appended at the end. Each "pad"
+member has a prefix of two newline-terminated text lines telling the
+insertion position and the member size (both as ascii decimal digits),
+before the actual insertion event content.
 
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