From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, norman@oclsc.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Deleted lib1 and lib2 in v6, recoverable?
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:57:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201812310657.wBV6vQuW001885@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1546196832.22954.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> Nowadays ranlib is no longer a separate program: ar
> recognizes object files and maintains an index if any are
> present. I never especially liked that; ar is in
> principle a general tool so why should it have a special
> case for one type of file?
I'll agree with that. My first exposure to ar was from the version
in Software Tools. I was suprised to learn at some point that it
understood object file formats.
> But in practice I don't know
> anyone who uses ar for anything except libraries any more
I know one person. Brian Kernighan maintains an archive of his awk test
suite using ar. Or rather, he did until recently, when I got him to
move to using tar a few months ago. :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-31 7:50 UTC|newest]
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2018-12-30 19:07 Norman Wilson
2018-12-30 19:24 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-31 6:57 ` arnold [this message]
2019-01-02 13:54 ` Tony Finch
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2018-12-31 3:22 Rudi Blom
2018-12-31 2:28 Doug McIlroy
2018-12-31 3:34 ` Will Senn
2018-12-31 6:52 ` ron
2018-12-29 14:13 Noel Chiappa
2018-12-29 1:09 Noel Chiappa
2018-12-29 1:26 ` Will Senn
2018-12-29 1:35 ` Warren Toomey
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2018-12-29 4:59 ` Warren Toomey
2018-12-29 16:26 ` Clem Cole
2018-12-29 16:49 ` Warner Losh
2018-12-29 17:48 ` Clem cole
2018-12-30 18:34 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-30 18:48 ` ron
2018-12-30 18:56 ` Warner Losh
2018-12-30 19:02 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-31 0:00 ` Donald ODona
2018-12-31 17:51 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-29 0:25 Will Senn
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