Contents
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0. Introduction
1. Synopsis
2. How it works
3. Compiler
4. Wrap up
5. File list


0. Introduction
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This material has been placed in the public domain and as such there are no
limitations on its use.  I do ask however that an acknowledgement is made if
this helps you out and the header remains intact in the source (yes I've got
an ego too folks).  As is usually the case, no warranties explicitly or
implied is made with this stuff.


1. Synopsis
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Some .LIB files are not constructed as per the standard.  They appear as a
list of object modules without the intervening librarian records.  LIB is
not able to understand these which makes breaking object modules out very
hard.  Hence this program which takes one of these .LIB files and breaks it
into separate .OBJ modules.

THIS CODE WILL NOT WORK ON A STANDARD LIB FORMAT LIBRARY.  Use the standard
LIB to process those files.


2. How it works
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It searches for a THEADR record and generates a .OBJ name from this.  The
drive/directory names are stripped, Duplicate names being resolved by
replacing the .OBJ extension with .001, .002, etc.  All records are then
copied until a MODEND is encountered.  This process continues until the
whole file has been read.

Information is written to stdout about the .OBJ modules, namely the .OBJ
name versus the THEADR information.

A .LNK file is produced which can be used as a response file for LIB to 
rebuild the library.


3. Compilers
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Microsoft C 7.00 was used to compile this, using a command line of:

CL /AL /Za /W4 /WX libtoobj.c

As this is the most stringent error checking I can get, I'll assume the code
is reasonably portable to another compiler.  The only microsoft-dependent
function that I'm aware of is '_splitpath'.  I've wrapped this within
'SplitPath' in the hope that it will be easier to change to another
function/compiler if required.


4. Wrap up
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Any suggestions, improvements, etc. are all welcome.  You can contact me via
email at the address below.


5. File list
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LIBtoOBJ.txt    (this file)
LIBtoOBJ.c      
makefile

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