freebsd man page for archive_write_new

ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				      ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3)

NAME
     archive_write_new -- functions for creating archives

LIBRARY
     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <archive.h>

     struct archive *
     archive_write_new(void);

DESCRIPTION
     Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for writing a tar archive.  NULL is returned on error.

     A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).

SEE ALSO
     tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)

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								 February 2, 2012							       BSD