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+Afio makes compressed archives that are safer than compressed tar or
+cpio archives, allowing better handling of input data corruption. Afio
+also supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation.
+
+Afio makes cpio archives with ASCII-formatted header information (odc).
+Where the odc format cannot represent some files and file properties
+that could be present on a modern UNIX filesystem, it uses an afio-
+specific 'large ASCII' header for the files concerned.