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diff --git a/static/v10/man5/ar.5 b/static/v10/man5/ar.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c5287fef --- /dev/null +++ b/static/v10/man5/ar.5 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.pa 1 +.he 'ARCHIVE (V)'3/15/72'ARCHIVE (V)' +.ti 0 +NAME archive (library) file format +.sp +.ti 0 +DESCRIPTION The +archive command ar__ is used to combine several files into +one. +Archives are used mainly as libraries to be searched +by the link-editor ld__. + +A file produced by ar__ +has a "magic number" at the start, +followed by the constituent files, each preceded by a file header. +The magic number is +177555(8) +(it was chosen to be unlikely to occur anywhere else). +The header of each file is 16 bytes long: + +.in +5 +.ti -3 +0-7 +.br +file name, null padded on the right + +.ti -3 +8-11 +.br +Modification time of the file + +.ti -3 +12 +.br +User ID of file owner + +.ti -3 +13 +.br +file mode + +.ti -3 +14-15 +.br +file size + +.in -5 +If the file is an odd number of bytes long, it is padded +with a null byte, but the size in the header is correct. + +Notice there is no provision for empty areas in an archive +file. +.sp +.ti 0 +SEE ALSO ar__, ld__ |