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From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Standalone boot tape???
Message-ID: <7370369@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 91 17:37:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.201346.5731@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>I just managed to majorly screw up our HP9000 340
>file server.  Don't know how, but the symptoms were:
>
>1) ranlib (any .a file)
>	produced:
>	"sh: host unknown"

Sorry I can't help with your administration problems, but I would like to
point out that "ranlib" is a no-op on HP-UX.  "cat" it sometime - it is a three
line shell script whose sole purpose is to print

	ranlib: ar already did it for you, see ar(1).

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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