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Re: safe to concat object files

Hi Eljay,

Thanks for all the help these days :)
I've been spoiled with windows too long.

The tool they're using appears to just be concat32.exe.  It looks like it
literally just appends the files.  Would GCC object files require ar, or would
any program do.  

Yamin

Quoting Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>:

> Hi Yamin,
> 
> That's an excellent idea.
> 
> The concatentation tool is called "ar".  A concatenated file is called an
> "archive".  In Unix, they usually have a ".a" extension.
> 
> The ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives.
> 
> --Eljay
> 
> 




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