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Chapter 12 / Link Technical Reference
MS-LIB The Library Manager
This utility is provided for advanced programmers. If you are not
an advanced user, you have no need for this utility.
With the MS-LIB library manager, you can create library files
to use with MS-LINK. You can also modify library files by:
• Deleting modules from a library.
Adding object files (as modules) to a library.
Replacing modules. To do this, first use the delete
function and then the add function.
In addition, you can extract a module from a library file and
place it in a separate object file. Extraction does not delete the
module from the library; it copies it.
MS-LIB requires at least 38K bytes of memory (28K bytes for
code and 10K bytes for run space).
Order of Operations
During each library session, MS-LIB first deletes or extracts
modules; then it appends new modules to the end of the file.
During those operations, MS-LIB reads each module into mem-
ory and checks it fQr consistency. It then writes back to the file
all modules you wish to retain. While doing so, it closes up the
disk space to keep the library file as small as possible.
After appending all new modules, MS-LIB creates the index that
MS-LINK uses to find modules and symbols in the library file.
If you wish, you can instruct MS-LIB to store the index in a list-
ing file. The file contains two lists. The first is an alphabetical
list of all PUBLIC symbols, each followed by the name of the
module that contains it. The second is a cross-reference list -
an alphabetical list of the modules, each followed by a list of the
PUBLIC symbols in the module.
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