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From: martinh@hpopd.HP.COM (Martin Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: no SCO ISAM in COFF format under OpenDesk Top ??
Message-ID: <7880005@hpopd.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 90 16:57:36 GMT
References: <250@sdipl.oz>
Organization: HP PWD, Pinewood UK.
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>/ hpopd:comp.unix.i386 / petem@sdipl.oz (Peter Mason) / 11:50 am  Mar  8, 1990 /
>Does SCO have a version of their SCO ISAM product in COFF
>library format? Having purchased the OpenDesk Top package
>after all the SCO's pr on support for standards (X/Open,
>SVID, POSIX, etc), I find it hard to believe that the ISAM
>product exists only in OMF library format. Since one
>can't link OMF and COFF together, it's impossible to have
>both ISAM, and the WINDOW/MENU/FORMS (for example) linked into
>the one image. Try using {get,put}msg (a la STREAMS) with ISAM
>too. Is it that hard to port a mere ISAM implementation?
>
Pete it is possible to get round this bye using "ar" to extract all
the object files from the library in question. Then run each object
file through the "cvtomf" to convert them to COFF object files. Then
re-create a COFF library with the translated sources with "ar", but
do not use "ranlib" on the library as the index at the front of the
library is not required for a COFF library.

Hope this is helpful.

Martin Harris - HP Pinewood Information Systems Division, R&D Lab, UK.