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From: brevard@mcc.com (Laurence Brevard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Zortech and 3rd party libraries
Summary: You can use PATH instead of renaming the LINKer.
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Date: 6 Jan 89 19:34:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)

In article <6170003@hpindda.HP.COM>, hardin@hpindda (John Hardin) writes:
>...
>>I have my machine set up with uSoft's linker named mslink and
>>the zortech linker called link.
>>
>>John H. Lawitzke      
>
>I agree! I don't like being required to rename files in other products
>to get a new product on my system to work properly.  If you work with
>Zortech and MS products on the same system this need to rename link
>is a pain.    The suggestion John makes above would please me as well.
>(W.B., are you listening? :-) )>

I think that Zortech's BLINK should be named BLINK instead of LINK and
that ZTC should look for BLINK instead of LINK.  Rumor has it that in
the newest version that is the case.

Meanwhile... all you have to do to "fix" it is, when running Zortech,
put \zortech\bin ahead of \dos in your search PATH (assuming those are
the locations of bLINK and msLINK respectively).

I use a "GODO.BAT" routine to execute things like word processors and
language systems.  The syntax is:

GODO DISK DIRECTORY NAME ARG1 ARG2 ...

For example Z.BAT contains two lines...

    @echo off
    GODO E: \ZORTECH\BIN ZED %1 %2

GODO does a default PATH setup (via CALL SETPATH -- I use MSDOS 3.3
which can call .bat files) then puts the home directory for the
program of interest in front of the default path via:

    PATH %1%2;%path%

Cheers (I still think BLINK should have been named BLINK!  :-)
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