Article: Q57852
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 7.00 7.10 | 7.00 7.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | docerr SR# S900116-46 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 8-JAN-1991
The LINK.EXE /PACKCODE switch of the Microsoft Segmented-Executable
Linker version 5.01.20, shipped with Microsoft BASIC Compiler versions
6.00 and 6.00b for MS-DOS and MS OS/2, can be abbreviated with /PAC on
the LINK command line. The same is true for the Microsoft Overlay
Linker shipped with Microsoft QuickBASIC versions 4.00, 4.00b, and
4.50.
This abbreviation has changed to /PACKC in the Segmented-Executable
Linker version 5.05 shipped with Microsoft BASIC Professional
Development System (PDS) versions 7.00 and 7.10 for MS-DOS and MS
OS/2.
On Page 589 of the "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide" (for
versions 7.00 and 7.10) the abbreviation for /PACKCODE is incorrectly
documented as being /PAC. It should be changed to /PACKC.
In addition, eleven occurences of /PAC should be changed to /PACKC on
Pages 596-597 of the "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide" (for
versions 7.00 and 7.10).
The /PACKCODE switch abbreviation was changed from /PAC to /PACKC
because a new switch was added to the linker to take advantage of
Microsoft BASIC PDS's ability to manage multiple data segments (far
strings). The name of the new switch is /PACKDATA and is used to pack
small data segments together. Its abbreviation is /PACKD.
Although it is not ambiguous to have one switch abbreviated /PAC and
another /PACKD, because the switches have similar functions, it is
more logical for their abbreviations to have the same first 4 letters
("PACK") followed by a distinguishing letter ("C" or "D").