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From: hornbeck@ucrmath.EDU (Matthew Hornbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Repost : Help With LIBrary File Formats
Summary: Question about format of .LIB files undes MS-DOC
Message-ID: <658@ucrmath.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 89 06:53:32 GMT
Reply-To: hornbeck@ucrmath.UUCP (Matthew Hornbeck)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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I didn't get any replies the last time I posted this, so I'm going
to try again.

Can anyone out there help me find the format of LIBrary files
under MS-DOS?  I understand the format of the OBJect files and that
the LIBrary format is :

	Library Header
	Object File(s)
	Library dictionary

But, I have no clue as to the format of the Header and the dictionary.

I would like to try to write my own version of a linker, mainly to see
how hard it is to do.  I've decoded most of the records in the OBJect
files (using information in the MS-DOS Encyclopedia from Microsoft),
but found no clues to the format of the LIBrary Headers and Dictionary.

Please send mail to me, and I'll try to post a summary of the responses.

Many Thanks,
Matthew Hornbeck
hornbeck@ucrmath.UUCP