🚀 go-pugleaf

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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