Olwe Bottorff wrote: > Can someone give me a good real-world scenario/example > using ar (arcive) to build library archives? Clearly the most apropos answer to this is to use the example of Debian [1] packages (.deb's) which are created using ar [2]. HTH, --Tom [1] http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major Half of the top 10 distros are Debian (or derivatives): Ubuntu, Debian, Knoppix, Mepis, Xandros. [2] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/116