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@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ file changes or reduces in size, anything may happen.
 If the mountpoint file doesn't exist, then **fusefile** 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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