🚀 go-pugleaf

gaf@misty.anasazi.com (Guy Finney - me) writes:
>
>Fine, it compiles into hello.obj.  But when I try to link it into hello.exe,
>I get the message "Invalid object module" in reference to hello.obj.
>Not even one of the Lnnnn message numbers to look up.  Hmmphh.

Thanks to all those who suggested there might be some other program
named link.exe in my PATH prior to the one in my C development directory.
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.

Oh well.  Another fun DOS development story.  I'm glad I don't work
on DOS for a living.
-- 
Guy Finney                                   "Ah, this is obviously some
Anasazi, Phoenix AZ                          new usage of the word 'safe'
gaf@anasazi.com  -or-                        I was previously unaware of".
...!asuvax!anasaz!gaf                            --- Arthur Dent