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1.1     ! root        1: .th ARCHIVE V 9/10/73
        !             2: .sh NAME
        !             3: ar \*- archive (library) file format
        !             4: .sh DESCRIPTION
        !             5: The archive command
        !             6: .it ar
        !             7: is used to combine several files into
        !             8: one.
        !             9: Archives are used mainly as libraries to be searched
        !            10: by the link-editor
        !            11: .it ld.
        !            12: .s3
        !            13: A file produced by
        !            14: .it ar
        !            15: has a magic number at the start,
        !            16: followed by the constituent files, each preceded by a file header.
        !            17: The magic number is
        !            18: 177555(8)
        !            19: (it was chosen to be unlikely to occur anywhere else).
        !            20: The header of each file is 16 bytes long:
        !            21: .s3
        !            22: .lp +13 8
        !            23: 0-7    file
        !            24: name, null padded on the right
        !            25: .lp +13 8
        !            26: 8-11   modification
        !            27: time of the file
        !            28: .lp +13 8
        !            29: 12     user ID of file owner
        !            30: .lp +13 8
        !            31: 13     file mode
        !            32: .lp +13 8
        !            33: 14-15  file size
        !            34: .s3
        !            35: .i0
        !            36: If the file is an odd number of bytes long, it is padded
        !            37: with a null byte, but the size in the header is correct.
        !            38: .s3
        !            39: Notice there is no provision for empty areas in an archive
        !            40: file.
        !            41: .sh "SEE ALSO"
        !            42: ar (I), ld (I)
        !            43: .sh BUGS
        !            44: Names are only 8 characters, not 14.
        !            45: More important, there isn't enough room to
        !            46: store the proper mode,
        !            47: so
        !            48: .it ar
        !            49: always extracts in mode 666.

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