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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "ld -l<NULL>" == "ld -la" -- why?
Keywords: UNIX history
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Date: 10 Apr 90 18:03:27 GMT
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In article <3142@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>I think liba.a didn't survive past Sixth Edition UNIX (circa 1976),
>
>As I remember, you're right.

Close, but no cigar.  PWB (Programmer's Workbench) UNIX, a 1978
vintage that was an incremental improvement on Sixth Edition, still
used the liba.a library.  Still, I haven't seen it since and there
seems to be no reason for modern versions of ld to support it.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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