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Subject: Re: HELP! with LINKING Microsoft FORTRAN
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 15:57:00 EDT
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> /* Written  2:06 pm  Jul 30, 1985 by duchene@noscvax in ima:net.micro */
> I have compiled a large group (83) of subroutines using
> the Microsoft FORTRAN compiler.  [When linked]
> with the Microsoft linker, the error message reads:
> Too many segments

The Microsoft linkers (including the versions provided with PC-DOS) only
allow 256 segments, total, per program.  You are almost certainly running
into that limit.  I've never found any way to trick MS-LINK into doing the
right thing.  You should consider another linker, PLINK-86, from Phoenix
Software Associates in Norwood, MA.  It allows zillions of segments, and also
has overlays that really work -- we use them all the time.

John Levine, ima!johnl