DOS ain't dead - OMF records

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posted by Arjay, 15.02.2012, 22:36

> compiler circa 1991. So old, in fact, that it was expected to be used with
> MS LINK, which at the time (MS-DOS 4.0?) came bundled with the OS.
> Unfortunately, it uses at least one problematic ("obsolete") OMF .OBJ
> record in its output: REGINT. This chokes most linkers.

Have you tried the following LINK/TLINK options?
Quote: the basic structure of both MS and Borland OBJ formats is based on the OMF format so specifying that the linker ignore the extended dictionary records (/NOE for LINK, -e for TLINK) will disable this little hassle.

via http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-programmer-faq/part2/ which just happened to come back when I did a Google related search for Simtel OMF as I remembered there were a number of interesting OMF linker tools on my Simtel BBS CD's. Sadly the new "improved" simtel.net site is near enough useless now days and I couldn't find those utils quickly just now but might also be worth checking.

> For various obscure reasons, I very very lightly decided to
> look into the matter.
Good enough reason :-)

Hope the above helps.

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OMF records - Rugxulo, 15.02.2012, 16:14 (Developers)
- Just some research about the name "E. R. Videki" - rr, 15.02.2012, 21:09
  - Just some research about the name "E. R. Videki" - Arjay, 15.02.2012, 22:08
    - Just some research about the name "E. R. Videki" - Rugxulo, 15.02.2012, 23:19
      - Just some research about the name "E. R. Videki" - Arjay, 16.02.2012, 00:47
- OMF records - Arjay, 15.02.2012, 22:36
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- OMF records - Japheth, 16.02.2012, 18:08
  - OMF records - Rugxulo, 16.02.2012, 19:48
    - OMF records - Arjay, 16.02.2012, 21:27
      - OMF records - Arjay, 16.02.2012, 21:52
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        OMF records - Rugxulo, 18.02.2012, 16:39
        OMF records - Japheth, 18.02.2012, 17:55
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        OMF records - processing SYS.OBJ with tdstrip - Arjay, 18.02.2012, 14:22
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        OMF records - processing SYS.OBJ with tdstrip - Rugxulo, 18.02.2012, 17:12
        OMF records - processing SYS.OBJ with tdstrip - Rugxulo, 18.02.2012, 16:56
        OMF records - processing SYS.OBJ with tdstrip - Arjay, 19.02.2012, 10:16
        OMF records - processing SYS.OBJ with tdstrip - Rugxulo, 19.02.2012, 17:58
- Oberon 1.2 OC (compiler) patch - Arjay, 18.02.2012, 23:37
  - Oberon/M 1.2 (OMF output) ... die, REGINT, die! - Rugxulo, 19.02.2012, 00:54
    - Oberon/M 1.2 (OMF output) ... die, REGINT, die! - Arjay, 19.02.2012, 10:05