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.\"     @(#)symorder.1	6.5.1 (2.11BSD GTE) 1/22/94
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.TH SYMORDER 1 "January 22, 1994"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
symorder \- rearrange name list
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B symorder
symlist file
.SH DESCRIPTION
The file
.IR symlist
contains a list of symbols to be found in
.IR file,
one symbol per line.
.PP
The symbol table of
.IR file
is updated in place;
symbols read from
.IR symlist
are relocated to the beginning of the table and in the order given.
.PP
This program was specifically designed to cut down on the
overhead of getting symbols from the kernel name list.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
The
.IR symorder (1)
utility exits 0 on success, non zero if an error occurs.
.SH SEE ALSO
nm(1), nlist(3), strip(1)
.SH HISTORY
The
.B symorder
command appeared in 3.0BSD.