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From: eric@femto.mks.com (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: MSC 6.0 failing under VPIX.
Message-ID: <ERIC.90Sep25121829@femto.mks.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 17:18:29 GMT
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Sender: eric@mks.com (Eric Gisin)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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In-Reply-To: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET's message of 24 Sep 90 13:02:18 GMT

In-reply-to: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET's message of 24 Sep 90 13:02:18 GMT
> [the MS linker fails on non-DOS drives in SCO VP/ix]

There is a known problem with VP/ix on Interactive UNIX (not fixed in 2.2).
A write of 0 bytes is supposed to truncate the file at the current file position.
This is documented DOS behaviour and does not work in VP/ix on UNIX drives.

This may not be the bug that cause MS link to fail, but it
is possible that the linker seeks back and forth in the file
re-writing things. It should be easy to write a test program that
checks for bugs in both these operations.