.\" $Id$ .TH AAL 1 "$Revision$" .ad .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 .B qdrtx, optionally concatenated with one or more of .B 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 /tmp/ar.* 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.