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From: thomas@trane.UUCP (Thomas Driemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Compiling Minix ar(1) on a SPARC
Summary: marx - minix archive extractor, source
Keywords: Probably crazy
Message-ID: <884@trane.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:03:32 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.152501@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>
Organization: Aurora Systems, Santa Clara, CA
Lines: 70


In article <1991Jan8.152501@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>, greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) writes:
> The only problem is this:  the .a files from Minix are not the same
> format as SunOS .a files, thus the Sun ar(1) cannot extract the Minix
> .a files.

Here is a short hack that extracts files from a Minix archive on a non-Minix
system. I used it on a Sun-3 to extract the sources from the Minix-ST 1.1
distribution disks. It's called marx, Minix Archive Extractor.
Usage: marx minixarchive.a*

I don't have Minix 1.5, but I think the archive format didn't change.
The code assumes it's running on a big-endian machine, the lines that
need to be changed if not are marked. Like I said, a hack.

I hope this helps.

Thomas Driemeyer
...!pacbell!trane!thomas


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