-to reconstruct the archive,
-so that sufficient temporary file space must
-be available in the file system containing the
-current directory.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-ld(1), ar(1)
+to reconstruct the archive, so that sufficient temporary file space must
+be available in the file system which contains the current directory.
+.PP
+If given the
+.B \-t
+option,
+ranlib only "touches" the archives and does not modify them.
+This is useful after copying an archive
+or using the
+.B \-t
+option of
+.IR make (1)
+in order to avoid having
+.IR ld (1)
+complain about
+an \*(lqout of date\*(rq symbol table.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+ld(1), ar(1), lorder(1), make(1)