From: rde@tavi.co.uk (Bob Eager)
Subject: [pups] extract old archive format?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 06:49:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100409064900.0c070313@raksha.tavi.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270775431.29470.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:13:55 -0400 (EDT)
Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:
> The 'ar' format of that vintage is trivial, and documentation easily
> found. I wrote programs to read it back in 1976!
>
> ======
>
> That's nothing. Either Ken or Dennis wrote such a program
> years before that!
I know...I used it, in July 1976!
Mine was in PDP-11 assembler, for a different operating system.
> Seriously, it's a binary format, so I don't know that
> it would be easy to process in awk.
I forgot that the first version was partially binary, but still easy in
most modern languages.
If I had more time, I'd have a go...again!
--
Bob
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2010-04-09 1:13 Norman Wilson
2010-04-09 2:11 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2010-04-09 10:15 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-04-09 5:49 ` Bob Eager [this message]
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2010-04-09 5:35 ` Jeremy C. Reed
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2010-04-09 2:40 John Holden
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2010-04-09 4:39 ` Carl Lowenstein
2010-04-09 10:23 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-04-09 10:21 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-04-08 13:25 Jeremy C. Reed
2010-04-08 14:49 ` Tim Bradshaw
2010-04-08 15:16 ` Brantley Coile
2010-04-08 17:09 ` Bob Eager
2010-04-09 5:11 ` Warren Toomey
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