[BusyBox] ar patch attached

[Glenn McGrath]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> On Fri Aug 25, 2000 at 03:13:06AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > This patch makes ar.c a lot better, it simpler, 0.5 KB smaller, better
> > functionality, moved copySubFile to utilities.c so it can be used by
> > other functions.
> 
> Patch seems to be missing... :-)
> 
I always forget something

> > Uses getopt now, but that means all options now have to have a '-' so i
> > dont know if this was a good thing?
> 
> Some thing happened when I converted tar.  People will just have to deal
> with it.  It isn't that hard to cope...
> 
> > I should have some more patches, i managed to cut down a default
> > busyboxbuild  by 4.5KB, but im not exactly sure how i did it, things got
> > a bit messy.
> 
> Hmm.  Sounds good.
> 
Na, i think i was mistaken, i was missing a feature, damnit.

> > I was looking at doing udpkg_deb using a pipe to gunzip.c's unzip(in,
> > out) function and tar, but i couldnt get unzip working easily, i had a
> > look at it and it looks really ugly to me, bigger job than i thought.
> 
> One of these days I intend to stick in some pipe suport so tar can
> support "-z"...
> 
Yea, i was thinking the same thing.

> > Ill get some patches out of the way before i tackle anything big.
> >
> > I have upload rights, but i still havent worked out how to use CVS
> > properly, so see what you think of this patch and someone can commit if
> > for me if they like.
> 
> Hmm.  I would like to see it.  Re using CVS -- I have posted some
> fairly descent directions on how to use CVS at:
>     http://busybox.net/cvs_howto.html
> 
> Using CVS is fairly important these days and for 99.999% of the time
> there are only 5 commands you need to know about --
>     cvs checkout
>     cvs update
>     cvs add
>     cvs commit
>     cvs rm
> 
>  -Erik
> 

Ok, ill have a go at committing it myself.

Glenn