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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Question About 'ar' Output
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:58:45 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmjindLm48KNLLsx@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d8bbdb4-1f1f-1da8-a517-5b31257c1261@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:17:05PM -0700, Jon Forrest via Binutils wrote:
> Can you point me to where this is documented. I haven't been
> able to find it.

"man 5 ar" or if that doesn't give you anything the good folk of the
freebsd project have documented the format.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ar&sektion=5

> Is this what's in a "thin" archive?

No.  A thin archive doesn't store the file contents, instead just
indexing the files on your file system.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-27  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-26  3:46 Jon Forrest
2022-04-26  6:15 ` Jan Beulich
2022-04-26 19:17   ` Jon Forrest
2022-04-27  5:48     ` Jan Beulich
2022-04-27  6:28     ` Alan Modra [this message]

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