archiving block data subroutines...

[Milind Saraph]

|>
|>Hi -
|>
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|>Archiving the block data subroutine does work elsewhere (at least on
computers
|>running BSD4.3).  It does not work on our SGI Personal Iris, (running
|>IRIX version 3.2 I believe - but am not positive...  I can find out if it
|>makes a difference).
|>
|>Is this a problem with SGI's archiver, or archivers on machines running
|>System V-like operating systems in general?  We do not have a "ranlib"
|>program on the SGI;  the "ar" program creates the symbol tables that the
|>loader needs (we can call normal subroutines that have been archived and
|>it works fine).
|>
|>Thanks,
|>Jeff
|>
|>--
|>/*********************************************************************
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|>** Jeff Biesiadecki           ** University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign    **
|>** jeffb at aquifer.las.uiuc.edu ** Departments of Geology and Computer
Science **
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This has certainly been a problem on Stellar and Ardent machines (SYS-V like
OS).

-- milind