Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!usc!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think C link error revisited.
Keywords: Think C
Message-ID: <37749@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 23:27:57 GMT
References: <5956@eos.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Fictional Reality: We bring good things to life
Lines: 25

jenlan@eos (Jennifer S Lanham) writes:

>the necessary header files. After compilation, I
>get the link error message:
>	'_file' not defined.

'_file is an undocumented (and unsupported) internal variable in many
flavors of stdio. It's generally used to help folks figure out how many open
files they can have.

The program depends on a common, but not guaranteed (or
standard) part of the stdio library. It's not Think's fault that it isn't
there, and you should modify the program so it doesn't use it because it's
not a portable variable.

You'd see the same error porting to some releases of SunOS, for instance.

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

The contest is over. Six people got the correct answer. The interesting
thing was the reaction to a list of names. You'd almost think that I'd said
something negative about them -- which I didn't. The reasons for the list
were left to the imagination -- on purpose. The reactions were amusing.