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From: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MS C 6.0 LINK: how to suppress the Definitions File prompt?
Keywords: link deffile
Message-ID: <1937@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 5 Jun 90 20:02:49 GMT
References: <4400@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh)
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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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.

Simply add a ';' to the end of the libraries you use with the linker.
The ';' (which is in the manual, BTW) simply means "I've told you
everything I'm going to tell you" and assumes default answers for the
remaining questions.

Bill
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