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1.1     ! root        1: .TH AR 1 
        !             2: .CT 1 lib_obj
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: ar, ranlib \- archive and library maintainer
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B ar
        !             7: .I key
        !             8: [
        !             9: .I posname
        !            10: ]
        !            11: .I afile
        !            12: [
        !            13: .I file ...
        !            14: ]
        !            15: .PP
        !            16: .B ranlib
        !            17: .I archive ...
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: .I Ar
        !            20: maintains groups of files
        !            21: combined into a single archive file,
        !            22: .I afile.
        !            23: If it is not to be modified, the archive may
        !            24: be read from standard input, indicated by the name
        !            25: .BR .
        !            26: The main use of
        !            27: a
        !            28: .I ar
        !            29: is to create and update library files for the loader
        !            30: .IR ld (1).
        !            31: It can be used, though, for any similar purpose.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: .I Key
        !            34: is one character from the set
        !            35: .B drqtpmx,
        !            36: optionally concatenated with
        !            37: one or more of
        !            38: .B vuaibcl.
        !            39: The
        !            40: .I files
        !            41: are constituents of the archive
        !            42: .I afile.
        !            43: The meanings of the
        !            44: .I key
        !            45: characters are:
        !            46: .TP
        !            47: .B d
        !            48: Delete 
        !            49: .I files 
        !            50: from the archive file.
        !            51: .TP
        !            52: .B r
        !            53: Replace
        !            54: .I files 
        !            55: in the archive file.
        !            56: Optional modifiers are
        !            57: .RS
        !            58: .PD0
        !            59: .TP
        !            60: .B u
        !            61: Only replace files with
        !            62: modified dates later than that of
        !            63: the archive.
        !            64: .TP
        !            65: .B a
        !            66: Place new files after
        !            67: .I posname
        !            68: in the archive rather than at the end.
        !            69: .TP
        !            70: .BR b " or " i
        !            71: Place new files before
        !            72: .I posname
        !            73: in the archive.
        !            74: .RE
        !            75: .PD
        !            76: .TP
        !            77: .B q
        !            78: Quick.  Append
        !            79: .I files 
        !            80: to the end of the archive without checking for duplicates.
        !            81: Avoids quadratic behavior in
        !            82: .LR "for i in *.o; do ar r lib.a $i; done" .
        !            83: .TP
        !            84: .B t
        !            85: List a table of contents of the archive.
        !            86: If names are given, only those files are listed.
        !            87: .TP
        !            88: .B p
        !            89: Print the named files in the archive.
        !            90: .TP
        !            91: .B m
        !            92: Move the named files to the end or elsewhere,
        !            93: specified as with 
        !            94: .LR r .
        !            95: .TP
        !            96: .B x
        !            97: Extract the named files.
        !            98: If no names are given, all files in the archive are
        !            99: extracted.
        !           100: In neither case does
        !           101: .B x
        !           102: alter the archive file.
        !           103: .TP
        !           104: .B v
        !           105: Verbose.
        !           106: Give a file-by-file
        !           107: description of the making of a
        !           108: new archive file from the old archive and the constituent files.
        !           109: With
        !           110: .BR p ,
        !           111: precede each file with a name.
        !           112: With
        !           113: .B t,
        !           114: give a long listing of all information about the files,
        !           115: somewhat like a listing by
        !           116: .IR ls (1),
        !           117: showing
        !           118: .br
        !           119: .ns
        !           120: .IP
        !           121: .B
        !           122:        mode uid/gid size date name
        !           123: .TP
        !           124: .B c
        !           125: Create.
        !           126: Normally
        !           127: .I ar
        !           128: will create a new archive when
        !           129: .I afile
        !           130: does not exist, and give a warning.
        !           131: Option 
        !           132: .B c
        !           133: discards any old contents and suppresses the warning.
        !           134: .TP
        !           135: .B l
        !           136: Local.
        !           137: Normally
        !           138: .I ar
        !           139: places its temporary files in the directory
        !           140: .FR /tmp .
        !           141: This option causes them to be placed in the local directory.
        !           142: .PP
        !           143: .I Ranlib
        !           144: makes a table-of-contents file
        !           145: .F _\^_.SYMDEF
        !           146: for each library
        !           147: .I archive.
        !           148: With this table the loader
        !           149: .IR ld (1)
        !           150: will extract files as if it were repeatedly invoked
        !           151: until no more subroutines can be found.
        !           152: .SH EXAMPLES
        !           153: .TP
        !           154: .L
        !           155: ar cr lib.a *.o; ranlib lib.a
        !           156: Replace the contents of library
        !           157: .L lib.a
        !           158: with the object files in the current directory.
        !           159: .TP
        !           160: .L
        !           161: pcat old.a.z | ar t -
        !           162: List the contents of an archived and compressed collection of old 
        !           163: files; see
        !           164: .IR pack (1).
        !           165: .SH FILES
        !           166: .F /tmp/v*
        !           167: temporaries
        !           168: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           169: .IR ld (1), 
        !           170: .IR ar (5)
        !           171: .SH BUGS
        !           172: If the same file is mentioned twice in an argument list,
        !           173: it may be put in the archive twice.
        !           174: .br
        !           175: .IR Ld (1)
        !           176: warnings that a library is newer
        !           177: than its table of contents
        !           178: happen when a library is copied.

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