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From: smace@pluto.ops.NeoSoft.com (Scott Mace)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][4.4?] ar and names longer than 16 chars
Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:04:56 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services   +1 713 968 5800
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In article <3id9oq$b9a@tipellium.apana.org.au>,
Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Greetings people; I posted here a little while ago concerning a problem
>I was having with ar and ranlib (ranlib puking on an ar archive).
>
>The problem appears to be with the long-name support in ar; when 
>reading the archive, the header for the file _after_ the one with the
>long name is read incorrectly.  Whether this is due to incorrect
>positioning, or whether the pad-to-even calculation is broken, I'm
>not sure.
>

try adding a T to the options...

	Scott
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