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     ARCHFS(4)                                               ARCHFS(4)

     NAME
          archfs - mount an archive format filesystem

     SYNOPSIS
          archfs [ -s ] [ -m mountpoint ] archfile [ prefix ... ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Archfs mounts the file archfile in archive format on the
          given mountpoint directory. The mount is read only. Typi-
          cally the archive file will have been created by mkfs or
          create. Any further names after the archive file name are
          treated as prefixes and only files in the archive whose path
          names begin with one of these prefixes are actually shown
          under the mount point.

     OPTIONS
          -m mountpoint
                    specifies the actual mount point for the archive.
                    The default is /mnt.

          -s        indicates that the rest of the archive can be
                    skipped once a file is found in the archive which
                    does not start with any of the given prefixes.
                    This is useful when an archive is known to contain
                    a description of it's contents in the form of a
                    series of header files at the beginning of the
                    archive and all we wish to show under the mount
                    point are the header files.

     SOURCE
          /appl/cmd/install/archfs.b

     SEE ALSO
          mkfs(8), create(8)