pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) (12/30/86)
This is a case of `read the manual before you sound off in the news'. The Mark Williams ar program INCLUDES ranlib, so I guess one solution to the `outdated ranlib' problem is to: ar ms lib.a last.o where lib.a is the library of your choice and last.o is the last element of the ar file.