[Coco] AR source code

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, tonym wrote:
>
>> There's some stuff here:
>> 
>> http://www.math.purdue.edu/~wilker/misc/DEVEL/0055/
>> 
>> something named ARMSDOS.C, source for opening AR files under DOS.
>> 
>> Check the other folders, 0001 - 0081, especially if you're into CP/M.
>
> I grabbed those yesterday and hope to make this build under Linux. 
> Unfortunately, there are many hard-wired assumptions regarding storage size 
> so it's going to be a bit tedious.
>
> There is a pair of precompiled 'ar' binaries for Linux, but since they are 
> built for an ancient version of libc only the statically linked one is 
> useful.
>

<sigh..>  I feel stupid.  Turns out there's a proper set of sources in 
toolshed.  For some reason "ar2" didn't register the first time I looked 
at it.




>
>
>> All that is needed to make AR MSDOS compatible is a couple of
>> functions to swap the hi/lo bytes of a 16bit integer in the right
>> places.
>> 
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