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- newoldar 21 May 2000
-
- Description:
-
- A modified 2.9BSD ar which handles archives created on a PDP-11 directly from
- non-PDP platforms. Archives identified as "old PDP-11 archive" by file(1)
- or otherwise having a 2-byte header of value 177545 (0xff65) can be
- manipulated using this utility. The omnipresent "cont.a" archives
- fall into this category.
-
- Usage: newoldar [opt] archive
-
- See ar(1) for extended options and better documentation.
- Of interest to most users are t|x - test archive or extract.
-
- Tested under: FreeBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/i386
- with: 1BSD source distribution and Shoppa's Usenix tapes.
-
- This quick hack brought to you by:
- Brandon Creighton
-
- Submitted by (didn't debug fast enough):
- Dan Frasnelli
- [dfrasnel@corewar.com]
-