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Chapter 5 Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities 5-9
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.