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.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.
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SEE ALSO ar__, ld__
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