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Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/odist/opkg/INSTRUCTIONS, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: The format of the Instructions file in a package archive
                      2: is as follows.
                      3: 
                      4: Each instruction is a line by itself.  Each instruction consists of a
                      5: single character instruction code followed by a number of fields.  Fields
                      6: do not contain spaces.
                      7: 
                      8: Various standard kinds of fields are:
                      9: <command>              shell command (via putpath())
                     10: <component>            archive component name (via putpath())
                     11: <mode>                 octal permissions
                     12: <dmajor>, <dminor>     major and minor decimal device numbers
                     13: <uid>, <gid>           user and group names (via putpath())
                     14: <path>                 path name (via putpath())
                     15: 
                     16: b <mode> <dmajor> <dminor> <uid> <gid> <path>
                     17:        block device
                     18: c <mode> <dmajor> <dminor> <uid> <gid> <path>
                     19:        character device
                     20: d <mode> <uid> <gid> <path>
                     21:        directory
                     22: f <component> <uid> <gid> <path>
                     23:        ordinary file (rest of the information is in the archive component)
                     24: l <path1> <path2>
                     25:        hard link -- <path2> is the link to be created.
                     26: s <path1> <path2>
                     27:        symbolic link -- <path2> is the link to be created.
                     28: r <path>
                     29:        file to be removed
                     30: x <command>
                     31:        command to be executed
                     32: X <path>
                     33:        file to be executed

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