hp/ux 9.x archive handling

[Christopher Seiwald]

| Related question: Is jam compatible in this respect (scanning
| the archive to determine what needs to be rebuilt) with gnu ar?

I'm not sure what the gnu ar does differently to handle longer file
member names.  The portable archive format has been steady for some
time, and I think the only provision for names longer than 16 bytes
is the cheesy "strings table" hack used on Solaris.  Perhaps GNU
jumped on the bandwagon.

Christopher
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