newoldar 21 May 2000 Description: A modified 2.9BSD ar which handles archives created on a PDP-11 directly from non-PDP platforms. Archives identified as "old PDP-11 archive" by file(1) or otherwise having a 2-byte header of value 177545 (0xff65) can be manipulated using this utility. The omnipresent "cont.a" archives fall into this category. Usage: newoldar [opt] archive See ar(1) for extended options and better documentation. Of interest to most users are t|x - test archive or extract. Tested under: FreeBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/i386 with: 1BSD source distribution and Shoppa's Usenix tapes. This quick hack brought to you by: Brandon Creighton Submitted by (didn't debug fast enough): Dan Frasnelli [dfrasnel@corewar.com]