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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:36:39 -0400
From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: ar(8) doesn't like its own output
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>Number:         721
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ar(8) doesn't like its own output
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 15 07:40:01 PDT 1995
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 18 11:38:03 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 18 11:41:00 PDT 1995
>Originator:     Garrett Wollman
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
>Environment:

	I'm not sure how old my `ar' binary is, but I don't remember seeing
	any fixes to it lately.  libc_pic.a is a month or two old.

>Description:

	An `ar x' command on libc_pic.a fails.  Strangely enough, `ar t'
	and `ar tv' succeed on the same file.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Script started on Fri Sep 15 10:28:46 1995
	bash$ mkdir tmp
	bash$ cd tmp
	bash$ ar x /usr/lib/libc_pic.a
	ar: /usr/lib/libc_pic.a: Inappropriate file type or format
	bash$ exit

	Script done on Fri Sep 15 10:29:16 1995

>Fix:
	
	Don't know.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: bde 
State-Changed-When: Fri Sep 15 10:09:57 PDT 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
Odd length long names seem to have been "fixed" twice, the second 
time incorrectly.  Extraction of files with such names has been 
broken since the second fix (to archive.c on 1994/12/23). 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: bde 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 18 11:38:03 PDT 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  

Fixed in revision 1.6 of ar/achive.c. 
>Unformatted:
Garrett A. Wollman
