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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit - can't run Guidelines C++ .bat file the deluxe setup
Message-ID: <18@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 06:07:43 GMT
References: <8042@condor.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
Lines: 34
Keywords: MKS Kornshell

In article <8042@condor.UUCP> charlie@condor.UUCP (Charlie Havener) writes:
>
>I have just purchased the MKS toolkit, mainly to get the vi editor.
>The vi editor works quite nicely so far. Has anyone tried using the
>configuration 4 installation which runs an init program and asks you
>to login to the PC? I have not been able to get that mode to work
>with my Guidelines C++ compiler ( actually it is the Microsoft 5.0
>linker that gives me error messages ). The message I get from the
>linker is something like L1002 Bad option. If I start up the pc

How about converting the *.bat files to *.sh files? That would be the cleanest
solution, and would allow you to fine-tune things to work with /bin/sh.

The "Bad Option" message from the linker is related, I believe, to the fact
that the MS Linker (all versions I have ever used) have '/' hardcoded as the
option character, and anytime '/' is used in a pathname, the linker hiccups.

I suspect that one of your environment variables (LIB, INCLUDE, maybe TMP or
TEMP, don't know for sure) which the Linker looks at, uses '/' as directory
separators.

I simply typed pathnames in environment variables used by the linker as
"\\dir\\file" rather than "/dir/file". You need to double up the backslash
since the MKS sh will swallow the first backslash, like UNIX sh.

There are a few other DOS commands which have the same problem. MS provided
a way to set the switch character for command.com, and then hardcoded it
into some of the utilities. Shows real smarts and consistency on the part
of their programmers!
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