Add an ar(5) manual page based on the one from the Berkeley ar(1).
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# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.24 1998/04/22 07:14:31 ross Exp $
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# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.25 1998/08/22 05:29:56 tv Exp $
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# @(#)Makefile 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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# missing: dump.5 plot.5
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MAN= a.out.5 acct.5 core.5 daily.conf.5 dir.5 disktab.5 ethers.5 fs.5 \
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MAN= a.out.5 acct.5 ar.5 core.5 daily.conf.5 dir.5 disktab.5 ethers.5 fs.5 \
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fstab.5 genassym.cf.5 group.5 hosts.5 hosts.equiv.5 ifaliases.5 \
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intro.5 ld.so.conf.5 link.5 lkm.conf.5 monthly.conf.5 motd.5 \
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netgroup.5 networks.5 passwd.5 phones.5 printcap.5 protocols.5 \
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share/man/man5/ar.5
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share/man/man5/ar.5
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.\" $NetBSD: ar.5,v 1.1 1998/08/22 05:29:57 tv Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)ar.5.5 8.2 (Berkeley) 6/1/94
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.\"
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.Dd June 1, 1994
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.Dt AR 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ar
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.Nd a.out archive (library) file format
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <ar.h>
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The archive command
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.Nm
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combines several files into one.
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Archives are mainly used as libraries of object files intended to be
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loaded using the link-editor
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.Xr ld 1 .
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.Pp
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A file created with
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.Nm
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begins with the ``magic'' string "!<arch>\en".
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The rest of the archive is made up of objects, each of which is composed
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of a header for a file, a possible file name, and the file contents.
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The header is portable between machine architectures, and, if the file
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contents are printable, the archive is itself printable.
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.Pp
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The header is made up of six variable length
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.Tn ASCII
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fields, followed by a
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two character trailer.
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The fields are the object name (16 characters), the file last modification
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time (12 characters), the user and group id's (each 6 characters), the file
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mode (8 characters) and the file size (10 characters).
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All numeric fields are in decimal, except for the file mode which is in
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octal.
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.Pp
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The modification time is the file
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.Fa st_mtime
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field, i.e.,
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.Dv CUT
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seconds since
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the epoch.
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The user and group id's are the file
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.Fa st_uid
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and
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.Fa st_gid
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fields.
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The file mode is the file
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.Fa st_mode
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field.
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The file size is the file
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.Fa st_size
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field.
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The two-byte trailer is the string "\`\en".
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.Pp
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Only the name field has any provision for overflow.
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If any file name is more than 16 characters in length or contains an
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embedded space, the string "#1/" followed by the
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.Tn ASCII
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length of the
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name is written in the name field.
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The file size (stored in the archive header) is incremented by the length
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of the name.
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The name is then written immediately following the archive header.
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.Pp
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Any unused characters in any of these fields are written as space
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characters.
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If any fields are their particular maximum number of characters in
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length, there will be no separation between the fields.
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.Pp
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Objects in the archive are always an even number of bytes long; files
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which are an odd number of bytes long are padded with a newline (``\en'')
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character, although the size in the header does not reflect this.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ar 1 ,
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.Xr stat 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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There have been at least four
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.Nm
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formats.
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The first was denoted by the leading ``magic'' number 0177555 (stored as
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type int).
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These archives were almost certainly created on a 16-bit machine, and
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contain headers made up of five fields.
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The fields are the object name (8 characters), the file last modification
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time (type long), the user id (type char), the file mode (type char) and
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the file size (type unsigned int).
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Files were padded to an even number of bytes.
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.Pp
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The second was denoted by the leading ``magic'' number 0177545 (stored as
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type int).
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These archives may have been created on either 16 or 32-bit machines, and
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contain headers made up of six fields.
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The fields are the object name (14 characters), the file last modification
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time (type long), the user and group id's (each type char), the file mode
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(type int), and the file size (type long).
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Files were padded to an even number of bytes.
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.Pp
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Both of these historical formats may be read with
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.Xr ar 1 .
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.Pp
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The current archive format (without support for long character names and
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names with embedded spaces) was introduced in
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.Bx 4.0 .
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The headers were the same as the current format, with the exception that
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names longer than 16 characters were truncated, and names with embedded
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spaces (and often trailing spaces) were not supported.
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It has been extended for these reasons,
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as described above.
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This format first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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.Sh COMPATIBILITY
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The current a.out archive format is not specified by any standard.
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.Pp
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ELF systems use the
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.Nm
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format specified by the
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.At V.4
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ABI, with the same headers but different long file name handling.
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.Pp
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Tn <ar.h>
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header file, and the
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.Xr ar 5
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manual page, do not currently describe the ELF archive format.
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