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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!pluto.ops.NeoSoft.com!not-for-mail From: smace@pluto.ops.NeoSoft.com (Scott Mace) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][4.4?] ar and names longer than 16 chars Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:04:56 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3ido28$5n2@pluto.ops.NeoSoft.com> References: <3id9oq$b9a@tipellium.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: pluto.ops.neosoft.com In article <3id9oq$b9a@tipellium.apana.org.au>, Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote: >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. > try adding a T to the options... Scott -- ***** This is not an official "NeoSoft" response ***** Scott Mace -- smace@neosoft.com