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From: rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: COFF binaries under 2.3 Dev Sys.
Message-ID: <2430@viscous.sco.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 21:36:52 GMT
References: <612@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: uunet!rosso (Ross Oliver)
Organization: SCO Technical Support
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In article <612@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Nowhere does it state that 2.3 allows you to *produce* a COFF-compatible
>object file!  Not only that, SCO tech support (NOT to reduce this to
>a SCO tech support flame fest) informed me that they had no information
>about producing COFF objects; had never had any inquiries about that
>subject; and it was probably a marketting "future consideration" issue,
>at best.  Thank you very much.

The 2.3 Development System cannot generate COFF object modules or
COFF executables.  It can link existing COFF object modules and
libraries into XENIX executables.  The upcoming 3.2 Development System
will include both the AT&T and Microsoft C compilers, and all the utilities
needed to generate both COFF and XENIX (x.out) object modules and
executables.

Ross Oliver
Technical Support
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.