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From: tim@ISM780C.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: binary postings (Re: net.sources
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 22:06:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 22:06:21 1985
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me == >>

In article <-37000300@rocksvax.UUCP> dave@rocksvax.UUCP writes:
>>Megamax has allowed IM toolbox names for a long time, if the programmer
>>wants to use them.
>
>That is wrong!!  The syslib file has the names in lower case to link against.
>I didn't have a hard disk at the time so I could not afford to have
>their new 50K batch program or the ToolNames file or the convert program on
>any disk and still have room for the sources, compiler and linker.
>

You don't have to keep convert around.  You use it once to convert all the
names, and then forget it.  This is what I did before I got my hyperdrive.
Why can't you take a disk, but convert and batch and toolbox.names ( or
whatever it's called ) on it, copy over the files that need converson (
*.c, *.h, *.o, syslib, any libraries you have made ), convert them, and
copy them back?

For those who are not familiar with all this, here is an explanation of
what all this is about:

	As shipped, the names of all the toolbox routines in MegaMax C
	are all lowercase.  There is a program called "convert" that
	comes with the system.  It can take as an argument a .c or .h
	file, or a library of object files.  It reads a file, toolbox.names,
	or something like that, which contains the names of all the routines
	in mixed case.  "convert" fixes the .c, .h, and library symbol
	tables to contain mixed case toolbox names ( it can also be told
	to go the other way ).
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