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From: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MS C 6.0 LINK: how to suppress the Definitions File prompt?
Keywords: link deffile
Message-ID: <55057@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 17:40:34 GMT
References: <4400@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <4400@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:
>With the new version of the MS linker, a prompt for a Definitions File
>has been added.  As a result, linker response files created to work 
>with the LINK that came with 5.1 don't work automatically -- the user
>is prompted to specify a definition file (or hit return for the default
>of no "deffile").  I would like to avoid the prompt altogether.  After
>RTFMing carefully, I still can't see any way to suppress this via a
>parameter (e.g. the LINK env variable).  Is there an undocumented
>means of avoiding this prompt without changing the response files?

There is a way to suppress the deffile prompt, by using a ; to terminate
linker input.  For example, if your old linker response file is foo.lrf,
try this with LINK 5.10:

link @foo.lrf ;

The linker goes to the response file for its input and when that runs out,
it goes back to the command line, where the ; tells it to default the rest
of the prompts.