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Jonathan Kagle (jonka@microsoft.com) wrote:
: In article <14JUL93.12564805.0008@tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> Michael Turk <ABMT@musica.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> writes:
[snip]
: >
: >BUT, in my opinion any environment that cannot build and execute
: >its own sample "HELLO WORLD" first program without dying
: >with obscure errors such as "LINKAGE ERROR 3"; that cannot
: >run on a standard 486DX with 4M memory is not suitable as a
: >teaching or learning tool except in a specialist environment.
: 
: This error does NOT exist in Visual C++ for Windows. All linker errors are of
: the form: "LINK : error L1001 : option name ambiguous". I'll bet you that
: you have a different linker ahead of the Visual C++ linker in your path. You
: can check this by looking in Environment from the Visual Workbench Options
: menu (if compiling from the environment) or by typing PATH from the command 
: line (if compiling from DOS).
: 
: >   *  Even the Microsoft Hotline language specialist had not
: >      heard of Linkage Error 3! Then I mentioned my memory size ...
: 
: The lowest linker error is L1001. 
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Boy, this sure sounds like he's found the problem; could we please hear from
the original poster (Mr. Turk?) if this was indeed the difficulty?
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