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1.1     ! root        1: .pa 1
        !             2: .he 'ARCHIVE (V)'3/15/72'ARCHIVE (V)'
        !             3: .ti 0
        !             4: NAME           archive (library) file format
        !             5: .sp
        !             6: .ti 0
        !             7: DESCRIPTION    The
        !             8: archive command ar__ is used to combine several files into
        !             9: one.
        !            10: Archives are used mainly as libraries to be searched
        !            11: by the link-editor ld__.
        !            12: 
        !            13: A file produced by ar__
        !            14: has a "magic number" at the start,
        !            15: followed by the constituent files, each preceded by a file header.
        !            16: The magic number is
        !            17: 177555(8)
        !            18: (it was chosen to be unlikely to occur anywhere else).
        !            19: The header of each file is 16 bytes long:
        !            20: 
        !            21: .in +5
        !            22: .ti -3
        !            23: 0-7
        !            24: .br
        !            25: file name, null padded on the right
        !            26: 
        !            27: .ti -3
        !            28: 8-11
        !            29: .br
        !            30: Modification time of the file
        !            31: 
        !            32: .ti -3
        !            33: 12
        !            34: .br
        !            35: User ID of file owner
        !            36: 
        !            37: .ti -3
        !            38: 13
        !            39: .br
        !            40: file mode
        !            41: 
        !            42: .ti -3
        !            43: 14-15
        !            44: .br
        !            45: file size
        !            46: 
        !            47: .in -5
        !            48: If the file is an odd number of bytes long, it is padded
        !            49: with a null byte, but the size in the header is correct.
        !            50: 
        !            51: Notice there is no provision for empty areas in an archive
        !            52: file.
        !            53: .sp
        !            54: .ti 0
        !            55: SEE ALSO       ar__, ld__

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