Ranlib limitations?

[Rich Salz]

In <1990 at prune.bbn.com> I asked the musical question:
> what are the limits to a library that can be succesfully
>ranlib'd?

Thanks to Sean Fagan <sco!seanf> for the answer:
	2000 symbols

It would be nice if ranlib took an error exit instead of silently
trashing my library, or nicer yet if it took the BSD strategy of
realloc'ing the table as necessary, but I'll settle for at least
knowing the limits and splitting my library up.
	/r$
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