Combining Archives

The flar command with the -c option creates a Web Start Flash archive from individual sections. Each section is assumed to be in a separate file, the names of which are the section names. At a minimum, the Archive Cookie (cookie) , Archive Identification (identification), and Archive Files (archive) sections must be present. If archive is a directory, the flar command uses cpio to archive it before including it in the combined archive. If the Archive Identification section specifies to compress the archive, flar compresses the contents of the newly combined archive.

flar -c:combine [-d dir] [-u section] [-t [-p posn] [-b blocksize]] filename

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Note –

No validation is performed on any of the sections. In particular, no fields in the Archive Identification section are validated or updated.

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Table 20–6 Command-Line Options for flar -c

Option	Description
-d dir	Retrieves the sections to combine from dir, rather than from the current directory.
-u section	If you do not use this option, flar combines all sections in the current directory. If you use this option, flar combines only the Cookie, Identification, Archive, and section sections. You can specify a single section name or a space-separated list of section names.