From: Arno Griffioen via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Origins of the SGS (System Generation Software) and COFF (Common Object File Format)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:13:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/i4CdkY5pVOCuzK@ancienthardware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202302241245.31OCjGrb015310@freefriends.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-24 13:14 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 [this message]
2023-02-25 19:28 ` arnold
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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