.TH AAL 1 2017-01-18
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.SH NAME
aal \- archive and library maintainer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B aal
key afile name ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Aal
maintains groups of ACK-object files
combined into a single archive file.
An index-table is automatically maintained.
The link editor
.IR led (6)
only understands archives made with
.IR aal .
.PP
.I Key
is one character from the set
.BR qdrtx ,
optionally concatenated with
one or more of
.BR vlc .
.I Afile
is the archive file.
The
.I names
are constituent files in the archive file.
The meanings of the
.I key
characters are:
.TP
.B d
Delete the named files from the archive file.
.TP
.B q
Append the named files to the archive file.
.TP
.B r
Replace the named files in the archive file.
New files are placed at the end.
.TP
.B t
Print a table of contents of the archive file.
If no names are given, all files in the archive are listed.
If names are given, only those files are listed.
.TP
.B x
Extract the named files.
If no names are given, all files in the archive are
extracted.
In neither case does
.B x
alter the archive file.
.TP
.B v
Verbose.
Under the verbose option,
.I aal
gives a file-by-file
description of the making of a
new archive file from the old archive and the constituent files.
When used with
.B t,
it gives a long listing of all information about the files.
.TP
.B l
Local.
Normally
.I aal
places its temporary files in the directory /tmp.
This option causes them to be placed in the local directory.
.TP
.B c
Create. Normally
.I aal
will create
.I afile
when it needs to.
The create option supresses the normal message that is produced when
.I afile
is created.
.SH FILES
.IP /tmp/ar.* 16
temporaries
.SH "SEE ALSO"
led(6), arch(5)
.SH BUGS
If the same file is mentioned twice in an argument list,
it may be put in the archive twice.