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2000-08-11Fix to make 'ar xv' work, thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>Eric Andersen
-Erik
2000-07-16Extract usage information into a separate file.Matt Kraai
2000-07-12Always report the applet name when doing error reporting.Matt Kraai
2000-07-05Patch from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> toEric Andersen
simplify ar.c and make it more readable. -Erik
2000-06-16Update to ar.c from Glenn McGrath. His comments follow:Eric Andersen
------------------------------ the attached diff applies to the ar.c i originally submitted Changes Preserve dates now works. Extracted files are set to the uid, gid and mode specified in the archive. Checks for valid end of header marker. Correctly unpacks newer debian files. (has a '\n' character between entries) Added more comments. Cleaned up code. Added a last modified date to help keep track of versions. TODO Common functionality in ar.c are in tar.c should be merged, in particular getOctal and extractSubFile. Should all functions that are used by multiple file go in utilities.c ?
2000-06-02A number of additional fixed from Pavel Roskin, note some more bugs in theEric Andersen
TODO list. Add Glenn to the Authors list for writing a mini ar for BusyBox, which is now included. -Erik