use a table to document AR support in different versions
@@ -161,6 +161,31 @@ LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
longer than 16 characters using the BSD dialect, writing
the SVR4/GNU dialect is not supported.</p>
+ <table>
+ <thead>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Version of Apache Commons Compress</th>
+ <th>Support for Traditional AR Format</th>
+ <th>Support for GNU/SRV4 Dialect</th>
+ <th>Support for BSD Dialect</th>
+ </tr>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>1.0 to 1.2</td>
+ <td>read/write</td>
+ <td>read</td>
+ <td>-</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>1.3 and later</td>
+ <td>read/write</td>
+ <td>read</td>
+ <td>read/write</td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
<p>It is not possible to detect the end of an AR archive in a
reliable way so <code>ArArchiveInputStream</code> will read
until it reaches the end of the stream or fails to parse the
