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The LIB Command CP/M 3 User's Guide
The LIB Command
Syntax: LIB filespec{[I|M|P|D]}
LIB filespec{[I|M|P]}= filespec{modifier}
},filespec{modifier} ... }
Explanation:
A library file contains a collection of object modules. Use the LIB utility
to create libraries, and to append, replace, select, or delete modules
from an existing library. You can also use LIB to obtain information
about the contents of library files.
LIB creates and maintains library files that contain object modules in
MicroSoft@ REL format. These modules are produced by Digital
Research's relocatable macro-assembler program, RMAC, or any other
language translator that produces modules in MicroSoft REL format.
LINK-80" links the object modules contained in a library to other
ob'ect files. LINK-80 automatically selects from the library only those
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modules needed by the program being linked, and then forms an executable
file with a filetype of COM.
The library file has the filetype REL or IRL depending on the option
you choose. Modules in a REL library file must not contain backward
references to modules that occur earlier in the library, because LINK-
80 currently makes only one pass through a library.
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