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> >Once again the Berkloids get credit for something they had nothing to do
> >with...  Ranlib came from Bell Labs and was included in V7, although it seems
> >to have been a late addition and the as-distributed V7 libraries don't use it.
> 
> so who are we supposed to give credit to?  to Bell Labs for distributing a
> useless ranlib?  or to berkeley whose libraries can be usefully ranlib'ed?

Whatever gave you the idea that Bell Labs ranlib didn't work, or wasn't
useful?  Neither is true.  It wasn't used on the libraries on the V7 tape,
but that does not mean it can't be.  Bell Labs is not in the business of
preparing polished software distributions (neither is Berkeley!); the
libraries weren't ranlibbed simply because nobody had got around to doing it.

> i think berkeley deserves a teeny bit more credit than "nothing to do with".

Why?  Ranlib was written by Steve Bourne, at Bell Labs.
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