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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Segments
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 12:49:30 EST
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> 
> I am a student of the University of Geneva and I have a problem in linking
> many large FORTRAN77 programs. I work on a personal computer (HP 150). My 
> linker is the last version (version 3.2) of the Microsoft FORTRAN compiler.
> 
> As I link my FORTRAN77 programs, the MS-FORTRAN linker displays the following
> error message : "Too many segments". The upper limit on segments is 256. A
> segment corresponds to an 8086 register.
>  
> Does exist a FORTRAN compiler (for personal computer) which :
> 
> - its upper limit on segments is greater than 256 or
> 

Microsoft Linker V3.05 allows a switch of the form:

  /SEGMENTS:nnnn
  
where nnnn is up to 1024 segments allowed.  I'm not surprised that you
don't know about this switch -- the PC-DOS 3.0 manual section on LINK
doesn't mention it at all.  I found out about it in the LINK section of
the Microsoft C compiler manual.