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I have extracted from bin.tgz:
ar
ar.1.gz
the dependency libfdd-2.9.10.25.so

I made a directory /ar and then the subdirectories in /ar

/ar/usr/bin   - I put ar here
/ar/usr/lib -  I put libfdd here
/ar/usr/man/man1 -I put ar.1.gz here

I then went back to /ar and typed makepkg.

It asked me whether to set sane permissions and I answered yes.

It produced 307K ar.tar.

I then tried to gzip it and discovered that there is a 0 byte
gzip in my /bin directory dated May 12.  Also files of the same date and 
size:  grep, egrep, fgrep, ginstall, ftp.  Where might these have come
from?

Perhaps my grep.tgz and gzip.tgz downloads had the same problems as
bin.tgz and I simply have not noticed until now, not having used these
programs, but why today's date?  

So I went into busyboxy directory and gzipped from there and got
143K ar.tar.gz which I have posted at

www.usol.com/~keesan/ar.tar.gz

I probably should have renamed to .tgz.

I have not tried installing this as I already have ar 'installed'.
Would anyone else be willing to test whether I got this right and whether
the package actually installs and works?  

This could be helpful to people who want to use a precompiled binary that
they can find only as a Debian package.  

If this worked I could do something similar for a select group of files
from bin.tgz.