From 486333fcfd5f2cc27736d07dbf10d2cd0b6875e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: peter Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:26:00 +0000 Subject: kill the undead --- usr.bin/ar/ar.5.5 | 146 ------------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 146 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 usr.bin/ar/ar.5.5 (limited to 'usr.bin/ar') diff --git a/usr.bin/ar/ar.5.5 b/usr.bin/ar/ar.5.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 2ab5b2d..0000000 --- a/usr.bin/ar/ar.5.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,146 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 -.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" @(#)ar.5.5 8.2 (Berkeley) 6/1/94 -.\" -.Dd June 1, 1994 -.Dt AR 5 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm ar -.Nd archive (library) file format -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.Fd #include -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The archive command -.Nm ar -combines several files into one. -Archives are mainly used as libraries of object files intended to be -loaded using the link-editor -.Xr ld 1 . -.Pp -A file created with -.Nm ar -begins with the ``magic'' string "!\en". -The rest of the archive is made up of objects, each of which is composed -of a header for a file, a possible file name, and the file contents. -The header is portable between machine architectures, and, if the file -contents are printable, the archive is itself printable. -.Pp -The header is made up of six variable length -.Tn ASCII -fields, followed by a -two character trailer. -The fields are the object name (16 characters), the file last modification -time (12 characters), the user and group id's (each 6 characters), the file -mode (8 characters) and the file size (10 characters). -All numeric fields are in decimal, except for the file mode which is in -octal. -.Pp -The modification time is the file -.Fa st_mtime -field, i.e., -.Dv CUT -seconds since -the epoch. -The user and group id's are the file -.Fa st_uid -and -.Fa st_gid -fields. -The file mode is the file -.Fa st_mode -field. -The file size is the file -.Fa st_size -field. -The two-byte trailer is the string "\`\en". -.Pp -Only the name field has any provision for overflow. -If any file name is more than 16 characters in length or contains an -embedded space, the string "#1/" followed by the -.Tn ASCII -length of the -name is written in the name field. -The file size (stored in the archive header) is incremented by the length -of the name. -The name is then written immediately following the archive header. -.Pp -Any unused characters in any of these fields are written as space -characters. -If any fields are their particular maximum number of characters in -length, there will be no separation between the fields. -.Pp -Objects in the archive are always an even number of bytes long; files -which are an odd number of bytes long are padded with a newline (``\en'') -character, although the size in the header does not reflect this. -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr ar 1 , -.Xr stat 2 -.Sh HISTORY -There have been at least four -.Nm ar -formats. -The first was denoted by the leading ``magic'' number 0177555 (stored as -type int). -These archives were almost certainly created on a 16-bit machine, and -contain headers made up of five fields. -The fields are the object name (8 characters), the file last modification -time (type long), the user id (type char), the file mode (type char) and -the file size (type unsigned int). -Files were padded to an even number of bytes. -.Pp -The second was denoted by the leading ``magic'' number 0177545 (stored as -type int). -These archives may have been created on either 16 or 32-bit machines, and -contain headers made up of six fields. -The fields are the object name (14 characters), the file last modification -time (type long), the user and group id's (each type char), the file mode -(type int) and the file size (type long). -Files were padded to an even number of bytes. -For more information on converting from this format see -.Xr arcv 8 . -.ne 1i -.Pp -The current archive format (without support for long character names and -names with embedded spaces) was introduced in -.Bx 4.0 . -The headers were the same as the current format, with the exception that -names longer than 16 characters were truncated, and names with embedded -spaces (and often trailing spaces) were not supported. -It has been extended for these reasons, -as described above. -This format first appeared in 4.4BSD. -.Sh COMPATIBILITY -No archive format is currently specified by any standard. -.At V -has historically distributed archives in a different format from -all of the above. -- cgit v1.1