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diff --git a/disk/physfs/DETAILS b/disk/physfs/DETAILS index b88ea16143..fbd736e027 100755 --- a/disk/physfs/DETAILS +++ b/disk/physfs/DETAILS @@ -10,5 +10,16 @@ SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION KEYWORDS="disk" SHORT="PhysicsFS is an abstract access method to files" cat << EOF -PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. The programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent, hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Symbolic links can be disabled, for added safety. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you a platform- abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user's home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc. +PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. The +programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file +writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for +security. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives +that form a "search path". Once the search path is defined, it becomes a +single, transparent, hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to +ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it +makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on +a per-file basis. Symbolic links can be disabled, for added safety. Finally, +PhysicsFS gives you a platform- abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs +are available, the user's home directory, where in the real filesystem your +program is running, etc. EOF |