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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7,net.bugs.4bsd,net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: lorder(1) bug + fix (all UNIX systems)
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Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 21:48:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 23 21:48:04 1985
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>        ...This can also happen on 4.2BSD systems if ranlib(1) is not used.
>        Lorder is less widely used on 4.2BSD and System 5.2 systems, but
>        its use is necessary to ensure source portability to V7 and
>        other systems (MS-DOS?) which lack System V's archive table of
>        contents or 4.2BSD's ranlib....

Once again the Berkloids get credit for something they had nothing to do
with...  Ranlib came from Bell Labs and was included in V7, although it seems
to have been a late addition and the as-distributed V7 libraries don't use it.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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