[pups] extract old archive format?

[Brantley Coile]

read the ar(1) entry in the 7th edition manual, located at ...

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html

and write the tiny bit of C it takes to read the archive.

Brantley

On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I want to look in some .a files identified by file(1) as "old PDP-11 
> archive".
> 
> Anyone know what tool I can use on a modern *BSD or Linux system to 
> extract the files from an "old PDP-11" ar archive?
> 
> GNU ar complains "File format not recognized". ar tells me:
> 
> ar: supported targets: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386 a.out-i386-netbsd 
> coff-i386 efi-app-ia32 elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big 
> srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex netbsd-core
> 
> But I have no idea how to try different targets. The GNU ar manual page 
> doesn't tell me much.
> 
> Or how can I use modern pcc or gcc to compile old pre-ansi ar.c?
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Now I found a simtools.zip via http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ which is 
> "a collection of tools for manipulating simulator file formats and for 
> cross-assembling code for the PDP-1, PDP-7, PDP-8, and PDP-11." But I am 
> not sure if this is related. On that note, any ideas how to extract 
> files from a ".tap" file used by simh? (For now I use view or strings to 
> look at it.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
> 
> echo 'EhZ[h ^jjf0%%h[[Zc[Z_W$d[j%Xeeai%ZW[ced#]dk#f[d]k_d%' | \
>  tr            '#-~'            '\-.-{'
> 
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