From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [pups] extract old archive format?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:49:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8CEF458D-BC4F-4E9C-BCCF-FAA7CED67D73@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1004080812010.13963@t1.m.reedmedia.net>
On 8 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Anyone know what tool I can use on a modern *BSD or Linux system to
> extract the files from an "old PDP-11" ar archive?
I think the politically correct approach to this would clearly be:
install a PDP-11 simulator on the host, and a suitable Unix on it, and
unpack the archives with ar.
Actually, that's wrong: the politically correct thing to do would be
to *buy a PDP-11*. But that seems to be fairly hard nowadays.
The former approach might be fairly practical though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 13:25 Jeremy C. Reed
2010-04-08 14:49 ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2010-04-08 15:16 ` Brantley Coile
2010-04-08 17:09 ` Bob Eager
2010-04-09 5:11 ` Warren Toomey
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
2010-04-09 2:40 John Holden
[not found] ` <n2m5904d5731004082137u5b054823wd4a9ce55113b1dee@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-09 4:39 ` Carl Lowenstein
2010-04-09 10:23 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-04-09 10:21 ` Johnny Billquist
[not found] <337550.74945.qm@web82407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
2010-04-09 5:35 ` Jeremy C. Reed
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