editorial (not a proper ar archive)

diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index a37d36d40c0e75d2409119e781fbc24923afe4e6..7c00e220d2cda937c26ff277c0e062a9f9da9dc8 100644 (file)
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -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.
 
 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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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.
 
 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.

 
 .SH AUTHOR
 
 
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