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authorapnadkarni <apnmbx-wits@yahoo.com>2023-09-15 06:05:01 (GMT)
committerapnadkarni <apnmbx-wits@yahoo.com>2023-09-15 06:05:01 (GMT)
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zipfs password tests
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@@ -35,11 +35,14 @@ zipfs \- Mount and work with ZIP files within Tcl
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
-The \fBzipfs\fR command (the sole public command provided by the built-in
-package with the same name) provides Tcl with the ability to mount the
-contents of a ZIP archive file as a virtual file system. ZIP archives support
+The \fBzipfs\fR command provides Tcl with the ability to mount the
+contents of a ZIP archive file as a virtual file system. Tcl's ZIP
+archive support is limited to basic features and options.
+Supported storage methods include only STORE and DEFLATE with optional
simple encryption, sufficient to prevent casual inspection of their contents
but not able to prevent access by even a moderately determined attacker.
+Strong encryption, multi-part archives, platform metadata,
+zip64 formats and other compression methods like bzip2 are not supported.
.TP
\fBzipfs canonical\fR ?\fImountpoint\fR? \fIfilename\fR ?\fIinZipfs\fR?
.
@@ -125,7 +128,8 @@ to access the files inside the mount).
Returns a constant string which indicates the mount point for zipfs volumes
for the current platform.
This value is
-.QW \fB//zipfs:/\fR .
+.QW \fB//zipfs:/\fR
+on most platforms.
.TP
\fBzipfs unmount \fImountpoint\fR
.