noft Manual (G06.27+, H06.03+, J06.03+)
ar Utility
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When modifier options are used in combination, the preceding hyphen can be 
omitted for all but the first option specified.
position-name
is the name of a file in the archive that is used for relative positioning. For more 
information, see the descriptions of the -m
 and -r options.
-v Give verbose output.
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When used with the -d, -r, or -x options, this option causes 
ar to write the name of each file involved in archiving 
operations.
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When used with -p, this option causes ar to write the name of 
each file to the standard output before writing the file itself to the 
standard output.
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When used with -t, this option causes ar to include a long 
listing of information about each file within the archive, including 
access, ownership, size, and date-and-time information. The 
specific content of the listing is:
access info, user ID, group ID, member size, 
month, day, hour, minute, year, Filename
When used with -t on Windows platforms, the ownership fields 
are shown (although shown as zero), because Windows 
provides for ownership, but access information for group and 
other is shown as “no access,” because these fields are not 
relevant under Windows. ar makes no use of the file access 
information saved for archive members.
-Wfiletype Display the file type. When this option is used with the -tv option, 
ar displays [elf], [tns], or nothing after the file name. Use this 
option to discover the cause of the problem when ar fails to 
generate a symbol table because the archive contains a mix of TNS 
and TNS/R files. This option is available in the OSS and Guardian 
environments.
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