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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
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Subject: Re: ar -ts, but no symdef table
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Date: 20 Feb 91 06:56:13 GMT
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In <1991Feb20.011810.16828@news.arc.nasa.gov> mwilson@max.arc.nasa.gov (Michael A. Wilson) writes:

| Having created a library from some fortran object files, I cannot
| convice ar to insert a symbolic definition table:
| "ar -tvs file.a" lists the contents, and says that its making the
| table. But it ain't there...
| 
| Machine = 4D/240; OS = IRIS 3.3.2; FORTRAN = 3.3

Yes, it is there. It just isn't the old BSD/V7 ranlib style as
a seperate file.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.