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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (roy)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: C/C++ 7.0 idiotic linking problem (the shame!)
- Message-ID: <930127.183321.0h5.rusnews.w165w@cybrspc.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:33:21 CST
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- gaf@anasazi.com (Guy Finney) writes:
-
- > That was it. This was very annoying. One might be forgiven for thinking
- > that Microsoft would have anticipated this and either named their linker
- > something else, or at least mentioned in the release notes that they
- > overloaded the name link.exe so you could take appropriate action.
-
- Niether did they mention overloading rm.exe... Do you know how
- frustrating it is to issue 'rm -rf dir' and get not a single byte of
- freed space? In this case, MSC was on the path ahead of MKS... until
- then!
-
- > Oh well. Another fun DOS development story. I'm glad I don't work
- > on DOS for a living.
-
- I do. Stay away if you can. Or at least go Borland. (they didn't
- overload link, either)
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