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From: swin@apollo.uucp (Stan Swiniarski)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: COFF documentation
Message-ID: <304e04e8.8160@apollo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 16:57:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 16:57:39 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 20:36:13 EDT
References: <2987@amd.UUCP> <7468@sun.uucp>
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In article <7468@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP writes:
>> COFF (Common Object File Format) was documented in Chapter 9 of the
>> Transition Aids manual that was published at the time of introduction
>> of System V.  Is it described in the current System V documentation?
>> Where?
>> 
>> So far, eight people at AT&T Customer Service, Bell Laboratories, and
>> 800/828-UNIX have not been able to help me find it.
>
>Well, if eight people working for various arms of AT&T can't find it, it
>seems like it's time for a shakeup.  I found it with no trouble; at least
>for S5R2 on the VAX and the iAPX286, it's in the "UNIX(TM) System V -
>Release 2.0 Support Tools Guide", April 1984, 307-108, Issue 2, under the
>heading of (surprise!) "The Common Object File Format".  Maybe they've
>misplaced it since then.  If so, it's *definitely* time for a shakeup....
>-- 
>	Guy Harris
>	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
>	guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)

The COFF documentation is found in AT&T UNIX System V
Programmer's Guide (release 3), chapter 11.