From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, arno.griffioen@ieee.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Origins of the SGS (System Generation Software) and COFF (Common Object File Format)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:28:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202302251928.31PJSXc1004140@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y/i4CdkY5pVOCuzK@ancienthardware.org>
Arno Griffioen via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 05:45:16AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > With tar and cpio, ar apparently fell out of use as a general
> > archiver, and today it's only used for libraries of relocatable
> > object files.
>
> 'ar' is alive and well as the archive format for .deb files though, so it
> could be argued that it's actually hugely in use as an archiver all across
> the world :)
>
> Bye, Arno.
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-25 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-22 20:16 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-22 22:20 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-02-23 0:17 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-23 6:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-23 14:25 ` KenUnix
2023-02-23 19:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-24 17:01 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-23 16:49 ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-23 18:38 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-23 20:40 ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-24 12:45 ` arnold
2023-02-24 13:13 ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS
2023-02-25 19:28 ` arnold [this message]
2023-02-25 19:34 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-02-24 14:01 ` Harald Arnesen
2023-02-25 2:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-25 15:30 ` Clem Cole
2023-02-25 17:29 ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-23 15:13 Noel Chiappa
2023-02-23 21:37 Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-23 22:11 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-24 0:07 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-25 20:14 Brian Walden
2023-02-26 15:51 Paul Winalski
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