Yes. Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. > On Dec 29, 2018, at 11:49 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 11:27 AM Clem Cole > >> >>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:59 PM Warren Toomey wrote: >>> Yes, order will be important, I forgot. There's no ranlib in v6 :-) >> >> Good point. I've forgotten as to where and when did ranlib appear in the dev stream? Was it research, UCB or somewhere else like on the Harvard Tape? >> >> Just now, I took a quick peak at the 1BSD archive on TUHS.org but the subdirtectories are all packed up as v6 ar archives (cont.a files) - i.e. when somebody converted the BSD stp tape to a tar image they just wrote the archive and then rewrote it as a compressed tar ball. So I will take a little more work to unpack them, ensure the dates are 1978 based. (which I'll do at some point and offer them back to Warren). >> >> But I do remember when ranlib showing up it was such a win for fixing C compiler (well linkage) errors. I could have sworn, we had it was before V7, so maybe it came with the Typesetter C or UNIX/TS stuff. > > > But wasn't it tsort that did the heavy lifting to get things in order? > > ar c foo.a `tsort *.o` > > Ranlib just made it fast by adding an index.. > > Warner >> ᐧ