[TUHS] Deleted lib1 and lib2 in v6, recoverable?

[Clem cole]

Yes.    

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 

> On Dec 29, 2018, at 11:49 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 11:27 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:59 PM Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
>>> Yes, order will be important, I forgot. There's no ranlib in v6 :-)
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>> Good point.    I've forgotten as to where and when did ranlib appear in the dev stream?   Was it research, UCB or somewhere else like on the Harvard Tape?
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>> Just now, I took a quick peak at the 1BSD archive on TUHS.org but the subdirtectories are all packed up as v6 ar archives (cont.a files) - i.e. when somebody converted the BSD stp tape to a tar image they just wrote the archive and then rewrote it as a compressed tar ball.  So I will take a little more work to unpack them, ensure the dates are 1978 based. (which I'll do at some point and offer them back to Warren).
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>> But I do remember when ranlib showing up it was such a win for fixing C compiler (well linkage) errors.  I could have sworn, we had it was before V7, so maybe it came with the Typesetter C or UNIX/TS stuff.
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> But wasn't it tsort that did the heavy lifting to get things in order?
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> ar c foo.a `tsort *.o`
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> Ranlib just made it fast by adding an index..
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> Warner
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