Author: bodewig
Date: Mon Feb 11 14:27:51 2013
New Revision: 1444780
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1444780
Log:
COMPRESS-214 add docs about symlink support in zip package
Modified:
commons/proper/compress/trunk/src/site/xdoc/zip.xml
Modified: commons/proper/compress/trunk/src/site/xdoc/zip.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/compress/trunk/src/site/xdoc/zip.xml?rev=1444780&r1=1444779&r2=1444780&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/compress/trunk/src/site/xdoc/zip.xml (original)
+++ commons/proper/compress/trunk/src/site/xdoc/zip.xml Mon Feb 11 14:27:51 2013
@@ -461,6 +461,20 @@
completely.</p>
</subsection>
+
+ <subsection name="Symbolic Links" id="symlinks">
+
+ <p>Starting with Compress 1.4 <code>ZipArchiveEntry</code>
+ recognizes Unix Symbolic Link entries written by InfoZIP's
+ zip.</p>
+
+ <p>The <code>ZipFile</code> class contains a convenience
+ method to read the link name of an entry. Basically all it
+ does is reading the contents of he entry and converting it to
+ a string using the given file name encoding of the
+ archive.</p>
+
+ </subsection>
</section>
</body>
</document>
