#: 8089 S1/General Interest
    09-Nov-90  16:55:28
Sb: #8088-#.ar file format
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: David Betz 76704,47 (X)

David -

'ar' uses an early LZ compression technique. Unfortunately, the 'ar' utility
isn't highly portable.. it's byte order sensitive (i.e. we managed to port it
to SysV years ago on a 68000, but the VAX didn't like it at all).

Pete

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