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Article #1394

Re: Overlay Linkers

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From: Daniel Mahoney
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 20:18
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In article <3489@master.CNA.TEK.COM> waynet@pendragon.CNA.TEK.COM (Wayne Turner) writes:
>Does anyone have experience with 3rd party DOS overlay linkers (in
>particular RTLink and Blinker)?  Borland's VROOMM just doesn't offer me
>the run-time efficiency and fine tuning I need for the product I'm
>working on.  I'm currently trying RTLink and working with Pocket
>Soft's tech support people to figure out why it won't work with my
>application (bails out with internal error code).  Any comments
>on good or bad experiences with these linkers would be welcome.

>Wayne Turner (waynet@pendragon.cna.tek.com)

I used RTLink Plus for a few months but ended up abandoning it, as the
overlay manager proved to be quite easily confused.  If your application
gives the end user the ability to change the current directory, RTLink's
overlay manager forgets where to find his overlay files.

However, if you are able to avoid that problem, RTLink Plus is a GREAT
linker.  The ability to carefully manage what modules go into what
overlay sections is really dynamite!
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From: dan@alchemy.UUCP (Daniel Mahoney)
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Subject: Re: Overlay Linkers
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Date: 5 Sep 92 20:18:18 GMT
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