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Subject: 1990 FORML
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Date: 9 Dec 90 02:06:01 GMT
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 Date: 12-06-90 (13:12)              Number: 396 of 397 (Echo)
   To: DENNIS RUFFER                 Refer#: 389
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: 1990 FORML                    Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
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 The best reference (although it is not complete because of new obj
 record formats that arrived with MSC 5.1 and MSC 6.0) is Rick Wilton's
 article in the MS-DOS Encyclopedia on OBJ formats.  Rick wrote the
 original version of our object module compiler and used that experience
 to write the encyclopedia article.

 Needless to say generating Intel/Microsoft OMF from Forth source code is
 a tremendously messy job, not because the compilation of the Forth is so
 hard, but because the OBJ module structure is so arcane, with many
 different record types and all kinds of strange cross-references between
 them.

 NET/Mail : LMI Forth Board, Los Angeles, CA (213) 306-3530
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