From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id: <199702201613.RAA03668@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Extracting .o from .a
In-Reply-To: <9702182153.AA02190@quasar.bloomberg.com > from "kagel@quasar.bloomberg.com" at "Feb 18, 97 04:53:20 pm"
To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:13:54 +0100 (MET)
Cc: getskow AT ionet DOT net, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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>    I want to extract all .o files from an .a file.  I am sure the 
>    linker will do this, but I can't find the right commands
> 
> Not the linker, the 'ar' utility:
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> ar xvf libmylib.a

Not quite correct:

ar x lib 
  or
ar x lib <enumeration_of_files_to_extract>

The 'f' option doesn't apply to ar. (ar isn't tar)

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