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DESCRIPTION

These functions provide access to various information about the object used in the library. Clears any error information left over from a previous call. Not generally used in client code. Returns a numeric code indicating the current compression. This value is set by Returns a text description of the current compression suitable for display. Copies error information from one archive to another. Returns a numeric error code (see indicating the reason for the most recent error return. Returns a textual error message suitable for display. The error message here is usually more specific than that obtained from passing the result of to Returns a numeric code indicating the format of the current archive entry. This value is set by a successful call to Note that it is common for this value to change from entry to entry. For example, a tar archive might have several entries that utilize GNU tar extensions and several entries that do not. These entries will have different format codes. A textual description of the format of the current entry. Sets the numeric error code and error description that will be returned by and This function should be used within I/O callbacks to set system-specific error codes and error descriptions. This function accepts a printf-like format string and arguments. However, you should be careful to use only the following printf format specifiers: Field-width specifiers and other printf features are not uniformly supported and should not be used.

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HISTORY

The library first appeared in

AUTHORS

The library was written by


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