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Re: REQUEST: Archive File Format Reference
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:47:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <programmer@vt.edu>
Where is a reference to the archive file format used by ar(1) and friends? I
unfortunately find the source code thoroughly unreadable.
It is described in several places: the generic ELF description, the
SVR4 docs, the SVR3 docs, the ar(5) man page on many Unix systems (but
not many GNU/Linux systems).
Ian