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diff --git a/doc/intern.texi b/doc/intern.texi index 554fd616..fbe7e9c1 100644 --- a/doc/intern.texi +++ b/doc/intern.texi @@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ of the file. At the end of the archive file there are two 512-byte blocks filled with binary zeros as an end-of-file marker. A reasonable system should write such end-of-file marker at the end of an archive, but must not assume that such a block exists when reading an archive. In -particular @GNUTAR{} always issues a warning if it does not encounter it. +particular, @GNUTAR{} does not treat missing end-of-file marker as an +error and silently ignores the fact. You can instruct it to issue +a warning, however, by using the @option{--warning=missing-zero-blocks} +option (@pxref{General Warnings, missing-zero-blocks}). The blocks may be @dfn{blocked} for physical I/O operations. Each record of @var{n} blocks (where @var{n} is set by the |