newoldar							21 May 2000

Description:

A modified 2.9BSD ar which handles archives created on a PDP-11 directly from
non-PDP platforms.  Archives identified as "old PDP-11 archive" by file(1)
or otherwise having a 2-byte header of value 177545 (0xff65) can be 
manipulated using this utility.  The omnipresent "cont.a" archives 
fall into this category.

Usage: newoldar [opt] archive

See ar(1) for extended options and better documentation.
Of interest to most users are t|x - test archive or extract.

Tested under: 	FreeBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/i386
with: 		1BSD source distribution and Shoppa's Usenix tapes.

This quick hack brought to you by:
Brandon Creighton

Submitted by (didn't debug fast enough):
Dan Frasnelli
[dfrasnel@corewar.com]