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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:

>Log Message:
>Remove the text that GNU ar assumes files are object files.  GNU ar is
>perfectly happy with non-object files (they are of type "binary" and are
>not scanned for ranlib symbols).

Yeah, this is probably bitrot -- at the time I tested it, our
ar(1) would core dump, at least on i386/a.out when passed a text file on
the command line.

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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