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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: what can you tell me about DOS .OBJ files?
Message-ID: <1180028@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 88 16:50:54 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I would suggest you contact either Microsoft (I think I've seen a document
describing the .OBJ format from them), or Intel (the .OBJ format is a
superset of the .OBJ format from Intel -- course, that won't help finding
out what the extra records mean...)

I have an old copy of the Intel document (had, I should say :-( ), and to
get you started all of the records are of the form

	BYTE RecordType;
	WORD RecordLength;
	[followed by whatever data is required, and]
	BYTE CheckSum;

RecordLength includes the checksum, but not the type or length itself.
Symbol names are size-prefixed byte strings; i.e., one-byte length,
followed by N characters (no null termination).

--Bill Turner