9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
7:49 a.m.
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:13:55 -0400 (EDT)
Norman Wilson <norman(a)oclsc.org> wrote:
The 'ar' format of that vintage is
trivial, and documentation easily
found. I wrote programs to read it back in 1976!
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That's nothing. Either Ken or Dennis wrote such a program
years before that!
I know...I used it, in July 1976!
Mine was in PDP-11 assembler, for a different operating system.
Seriously, it's a binary format, so I don't
know that
it would be easy to process in awk.
I forgot that the first version was partially binary, but still easy in
most modern languages.
If I had more time, I'd have a go...again!
--
Bob