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Chapter 5
Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities
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the last argument in the command line if the
b
option is after the
f
option.
<blknum> immediately follows the option list if the
b
option precedes the
f
option.
w
Prompts you before overwriting already-existing content.
The
f
argument, which precedes a source
tar
file or device, is required for all
smc_tar
commands.
When writing to a
tar
file or device (
c
option), you are moving data from an MFS
to a tar device. When extracting from a
tar
file or device (
x
option), you are moving
data from a tar device to an MFS.
5.3.2
Content Loading
Before performing its file-loading function (
x
option),
smc_tar
performs parsing of
the TOC file and error checking on the index files. If it detects a value in one of these
files that implies an encoding error in a data file, it returns an error and exits. If
smc_tar
proceeds with and completes file installation, it indicates that the content
has been formatted correctly for use on the Sun MediaCenter server.
The content-loading function of
smc_tar
is illustrated in
FIGURE 5-1
.