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- BLINKER FORCE - front end enterpreter of linker command lines [1991 JM]
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-
- FILES IN .ZIP:
-
- BF.EXE front end executable
- BF.DOC this file
-
- BLINKER FORCE will accept command syntax similar to MSLINK or TLINK and
- translate it into a blinker link file (BLINKER.TMP). BF then calls
- BLINKER with the @BLINKER.TMP command line parameter. The command
- syntax is as follows:
-
- BF [/M] [/L] [/S:stack] OBJ_LIST, EXE, MAP, LIB_LIST [/N]
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- /M generate map file
- /L debugging information
- /S stack size
- /N skip linking step (only produce BLINKER.TMP)
-
- The OBJ_LIST and LIB_LIST can use either spaces or '+' for delimiters
- between modules or libraries.
-
- ex. BF /M /S:32767 OBJ1 OBJ2+OBJ3,,MAPFILE.MAP,FORCE.LIB+JD.LIB
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- If FORCE.LIB or any JD libraries are used, the command line in the link
- file will be 'SEARCH <lib>'.
-
- Overlays must be enclosed in parenthesis individually.
-
- ex. BF OBJ1 OBJ2 (OBJ3) (OBJ4)+(OBJ5) OBJ6,,,(JD.LIB) FORCE.LIB
-
- If the environment variable 'BSWAP' is set to 'SWAP', BF will swap
- memory to disk before calling BLINKER.
-
- ex. SET BSWAP=SWAP
-
- If the environment variable 'BLINK' is set to any exe name, BF will assume
- that is the name of BLINKER (just in case someone renames BLINKER to BLINK)
-
- ex. SET BLINK=BLINK
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- NOTE: BLINKER will be found anywhere in the DOS path...
-
- If BF finds FI or FILE on the command line, it will assume that this
- is a normal BLINKER command line and pass it directly to BLINKER. If
- the first parameter is @????? then this is assumed to be a BLINKER
- script file and passed directly to BLINKER.
-
- This is just a rough draft documentation, so there probably are problems...
-
- - Jayson Minard
- SOPHCO technical support (303) 444-1542
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