From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive]
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:01:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180720230101.GA24929@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp9kRS2zVX-o+wpzpQE71-e_wZQLkxA40RPnuuihgC2W7A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:39:20AM -0400, John P. Linderman wrote:
> Interesting that of all the commands mentioned, ar is (at least for
me) no
> longer used (although I haven't used ed in many years).
".deb" packages (used by Debian and Ubuntu linuxes) are a header file
and two .tar.gz files packed into ar format. ar(1) is widely used to
unscrew Debian packages on systems without dpkg tools installed. So,
while it might not be be doing the same job, it retains some currency
in the land of linux.
khm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-20 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 12:33 Nemo
2018-07-17 13:20 ` arnold
2018-07-17 14:39 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-18 17:39 ` arnold
2018-07-19 4:59 ` [TUHS] ar libraries [was: Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive]] Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-07-19 15:29 ` Paul Winalski
2018-07-19 16:12 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-20 23:01 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2018-07-18 0:56 ` [TUHS] Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive] Ron Natalie
2018-07-18 3:54 ` arnold
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