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-.TH AR 1 "Aug 24, 2009"
+.TH AR 1 "Sep 10, 2013"
.SH NAME
ar \- maintain portable archive or library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
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.LP
By convention, archives are suffixed with "\fB\&.a\fR".
.sp
.LP
When inserting \fBELF\fR objects into an archive file, \fBar\fR might add
-"\fB\n\fR" characters to pad these objects to an 8-byte boundary. Such padding
+"\fB\en\fR" characters to pad these objects to an 8-byte boundary. Such padding
improves the efficiency with which \fBld\fR(1) can access the archive. Only
\fBELF\fR object files are padded in this way. Other archive members are not
altered. When an object with such padding is extracted from an archive, the
padding is not included in the resulting output.