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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: IEEE 1003.2
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Date: 12 Dec 88 14:54:39 GMT
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In article <14946@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

>For that matter, why do we need object archives in the first place?
>They are just a hack to save space (and perhaps, but not necessarily,
>time).  How about /lib/libc/*.o?

inodes were a scarce resource back then ...

We had an implementation of archives as plain directories (with the proper
changes to ar, ld, etc), and it worked just fine.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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