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From: Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Subject: Re: LD looks at zip drive
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 00:31:38 GMT
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Myknees wrote:

> In article <34aa0925 DOT 37174269 AT news DOT dircon DOT co DOT uk>, xyzzy AT snafu DOT fubar (Roger)
> writes:
> >The following string appears in GNU ld 2.8.1 (the offset is from the beginning
> >of the file):
> >
> >       0x03C77C   e:/djgpp/i386-pc-msdosdjgpp/lib
> >
> >Changing the e: to c: "cured" it for me! (The directory does not actually
> exist;
> >ld finds out this quickly and gets on looking in its other places.)
> 
> That is very interesting.  Forgive a newbie for asking: you mean that you just
> edited the source and recompiled LD?  I'd try that right now, but I'd have to
> take the time to learn how to do it properly.  I might mess something up.
> 
> --Ed (Myknees)

Use a hex editor, eg hexedit, load ld.exe in it, look for the string
above, and manually change the e into a c. Don't forget to copy ld.exe
somewhere safe first, in case something goes wrong.

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