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From: micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Micky Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Status of PC-NFS Toolkit
Message-ID: <1319@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 89 15:29:35 GMT
Reply-To: micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Micky Liu)
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I have the Programmer's Toolkit for PC-NFS V3.0 and was wondering
about the status of this software product...  Is this product being
upgraded at all?  I am running Microsoft C V5.1 and am not too happy
with consistency problems...  

- Some objects are defined more than once between toolkit supplied
  header files and msc supplied header files.

- Some objects are not defined to be of the same type between the
  header files.  Although the examples that I've found had types of
  the same size, I suspect that there are some problems with usage.

- Some of the libraries have objects that were compiled in uppercase,
  making it necessary to link the objects by hand since the default
  for the compiler is to use /NOI (no ignore case).

- Yet, some of the libraries are all lowercase...

- Since the new version of the MS C compiler uses 'combined' libraries,
  the default library search the was compiled into the toolkit objects
  causes many unnecessary prompts for libraries that don't exist.
  Solution is to use /NOD (no default library search), but then you
  must specify the standard library, [smcl]libce.lib (like /lib/libc.a).

Big question is, will there be another version of the toolkit updated to
conform to the new compilers?

Thanx,

Micky Liu

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