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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: [FreeBSD][4.4?] ar and names longer than 16 chars Date: 21 Feb 1995 18:00:58 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3id9oq$b9a@tipellium.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Greetings people; I posted here a little while ago concerning a problem I was having with ar and ranlib (ranlib puking on an ar archive). The problem appears to be with the long-name support in ar; when reading the archive, the header for the file _after_ the one with the long name is read incorrectly. Whether this is due to incorrect positioning, or whether the pad-to-even calculation is broken, I'm not sure. Having found the cause of the problem, I've worked around it for now, given that I have other things to worry about 8( What's the status on this one? Fixed in 2.1? Unknown? New to the world? Ta. -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #