On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:56:00PM -0400, Christopher Curtis <ccurtis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Where is there documentation on the ar format? I can't seem to find
man 5 ar
google ar file format
etc.. easy to find.. like tar and cpio (and to some extent zip), there is
no "the" ar format. susv3 has to say this about the format:
If an archive file consists entirely of printable files, the entire
archive file is printable. When ar creates an archive file, it creates
administrative information in a format that is portable across all
machines.
Yupp, that's all. Another good resource apart from manpages and google is
the binutils source, which contains a lot of real-world info.
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