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From: rde@ukc.UUCP (R.D.Eager)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Microsoft Linker and Overlays
Message-ID: <5143@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 20:38:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 20:38:42 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 20:12:16 EDT
Reply-To: rde@ukc.UUCP (R.D.Eager)
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Keywords: LINK, MSDOS, Overlays
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[food for line eater]

I  just  got  the  new MSDOS assembler package (3.00) which does seem an
improvement on the last  version  (e.g. better  documentation,  improved
librarian, 186/286 support, symbolic debugger, simple MAKE).

The linker error messages mention building overlays by using parentheses
round   items  in  the  command  line. There  is  nothing  in  the  LINK
documentation about this, but I tried it and  it  builds  all  kinds  of
stuff.

Where can I find out more? I realise this may be documented in (say) the
C  manuals  but  I really want details of the nuts and bolts as it would
all be useful for a compiler I am writing.....

   Thanks in advance,

   Bob Eager
   (...!mcvax!ukc!rde)