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From: nts0699@dsac.dla.mil (Gene McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Overlays on Novell networks
Keywords: linker overlays novell
Message-ID: <1688@dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 22 Feb 90 13:07:52 GMT
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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I'm in need of some help with MSC programs, which are linked with
overlays running on a Novell network.

I'm the developer of a program which uses overlays, currently linked
with Microsoft's Linker, version 3.60, as distributed with MSC 5.1.
In order to find it's overlays, the Microsoft overlay loader requires
that the .EXE file be located in the PATH. So far, so good on a pure
MS-DOS system.

On a Novell network, when the public drives/directories are mapped
into Novell logical drives, they do not necessarily appear in the
DOS PATH. In many cases, when this program is loaded to a Novell
mapped, public drive, we get the 'Place disk containing KYSS.EXE in
drive F: ...', where F: is the Novell mapped drive where the .EXE file
exists.

The interesting thing here is that the loader, by way of its message,
knows where the mapped image of the .EXE file is, (drive F:), but still
fails.

Questions:
   1. Does anyone know of a suitable fix for the M'Soft linker/loader
   when running from a Novell public mapped drive? Does a later version
   of the M'Soft linker support this environment better?

   2. What about other overlay linkers such as .RTLink or Plink86? Do
   these produce/manage overlays in a more logical fashion in both the
   DOS and Novell environments? Can I get some experienced opinions on
   these alternate linkers...flexibility, program size, source code
   transparency of the overlay process, etc.?

Thanx a ton...

Gene
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