.OBJ files

[dittman]

I downloaded a couple of archives and there a programs supplied as .OBJ files (for example, LD301.LBR has LD301.OBJ). L80 and LINK look for .REL files. What linker processes these?

I always used M80 in the past which generates .REL.

 

[Chuck(G)]

.OBJ at least used in your library appears to be plain old .COM executable. CREATE.OBJ, for example, is a plain old .COM file as far as I can tell. LD301.OBJ is an executable but has a 256-byte header. The idea was that a file with a type of .OBJ can't easily be executed on an RBBS system.

At least that's what I recall.

 

[dittman]

Thanks, Chuck. Now that you say that the cobwebs cleared a bit and I remember having to rename programs I downloaded years ago.

I looked in LD301.OBJ and the first instruction was a RET so I didn't think to try renaming it to see what would happen. I did and it runs.