[comp.lang.c] Microsoft Flame, Seeking help on use of LIB

rcw@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Robert White) (09/26/90)

I am a bit upset with the lack  of documentation for the LIB program
in Microsoft's C Compiler, Version 6.XX.  It gets exactly one page 
(page 28) which does not really tell you how to even use this program.

I ran into trouble compiling the recent distribution of RCS.  Apparently
the latest distribution of the compiler has a radically different version
of the MAKE program (ndmake) than previous versions of the compiler.

Does anyone have a manual page for using this program, or perhaps an
updated makefile for RCS under MS-DOS?


Yours,


-- 
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rcw@scicom.alphacdc.com  

richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN) (09/29/90)

In article <6684@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> rcw@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Robert White) writes:

|I am a bit upset with the lack  of documentation for the LIB program
|in Microsoft's C Compiler, Version 6.XX.  It gets exactly one page 
|(page 28) which does not really tell you how to even use this program.

Most of the C6 documentation is online.  To get the details on LIB,
type LIB and right click on it in PWB, or from the command line, type
QH LIB for QuickHelp.

|I ran into trouble compiling the recent distribution of RCS.  Apparently
|the latest distribution of the compiler has a radically different version
|of the MAKE program (ndmake) than previous versions of the compiler.

Ditto for NMAKE -- the details are online in QuickHelp.
Once you get used to it, the online help is a very fast way to get
to the info you want.