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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: lorder(1) bug + fix (all UNIX syste
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 18:28:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 25 18:28:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Nov 25 17:28:00 1985


>>        ...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.

so who are we supposed to give credit to?  to Bell Labs for distributing a
useless ranlib?  or to berkeley whose libraries can be usefully ranlib'ed?
i think berkeley deserves a teeny bit more credit than "nothing to do with".

	wayne hamilton
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