On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 11:27 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:59 PM Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> wrote:
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>> Yes, order will be important, I forgot. There's no ranlib in v6 :-)
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> 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?
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> 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).
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> 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.
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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

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