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TCLIB 1.0 DOCUMENTATION

TCLIB - The Turbo C Librarian
Created for use with Borland Internationals Turbo C Compiler

















This product is being distributed under the Shareware concept.
This gives you the right to try before you buy and pass on a
good thing to others. You may not reproduce this product or its
documentation for a profit or include it in a commercial pack-
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Rodney B. Rich
Panama City Software
2661-A Garfield
Tyndall AFB, Fl. 32403

(904) 286-6265




The TCLIB librarian is an object code library manager for use with
Turbo C librarys used with TLINK. The libraries created and managed by
this program are NOT Microsoft .LIB compatible but are compatible with
those produced by QLIB, the quick and dirty library CREATE ONLY utility
written by Roger Schlafy for Borland. It can however, read and convert
Microsoft format library files, such as those supplied with Turbo C. The
TCLIB libraries have the advantage of being much smaller (an average of
10K on a 70-80k Microsoft format lib). The TCLIB program is also much
faster than LIB from Microsoft. It can extract, delete, and append files
using an all command line approach or a command line and response file
approach (for long lists of commands). It can also provide a list of
object modules in a library.

To use TCLIB, invoke it with at least the name of a library on the
command line as TCLIB libname. Do NOT use any extensions, .LIB is assumed.
If all you supply is a library name, the library will be scanned and a
file with the same name as the library and an extension of .LST will be
created. This file contains a list of all object modules in the library in
order of occurance, along with thier offset and size.

If the library is not already in TCLIB format (ie, its in
Microsoft library format), the library will be converted to the TCLIB
format. This involves renaming the existing library to have an .MSF
extension and creating the new library under the old library name. If the
program detects that the library is in need of conversion, this will
happen automatically, so ensure that sufficient space is available on the
current drive/directory for the new library.

Following the library name on the command line should be the
names of any object modules you wish to work with, each proceded by the
desired switch character with no intervening space between the switch and
object module name. There should also be NO extension used on the object
file names on the command line. OBJ is the assumned extension. See the
example below for command line format:

Assuming the library contains the following modules:

absread
plot
write
writea

and you issue the following command:

TCLIB libname -absread +scanf +fprintf +plot *write *writea

then absread will be deleted (- switch), scanf, fprintf will be added
(+ switch), plot will be deleted (since it is being added and it already
exists) and then the new copy appended, and write and writea will be
copied from the library to independant object files on the disk, though
not in that order. TCLIB will always delete and replace (the new copy is
appended at the end) a module if it already exists in the library. So if
you wish to replace an existing module, simply specify add for that module
on the command line. This is the equivalent of Microsoft LIBs -+ switch.
Commands are processed in the following order; extracts, deletes, then

adds. To accomplish the same as Microsofts command to extract and remove a
module (move, as they call it) just do an extract and delete of the same
file. Operations take place in the appropriate order no matter what order
they are given in. A new library will be created any time you add or
delete modules. The existing library will be renamed to an .OLD extension
and a new library will be constructed on the currently logged drive /
directory. Make sure you have the room for this! If it fails, you can
simply rename the .OLD library with no loss other than time however.

If you are dealing with more commands than will fit on the
command line, you can use a response file. This is nothing more than an
ASCII file in which each command is on a SEPARATE line, and consists of
the same switch and object module format as the command line given above.
Unlike the Microsoft librarian, you do NOT put the library name in the
reponse file. It must be on the command line as the first parameter. The
response file must be the second parameter and is the name of your
response file with an @ switch appended to the front of it. No extension
is assumned so if it has one, you must supply it. Also, unlike LIB, you
do not use any line continuation characters in the file. Each line should
consist of just ONE switch/filename combination. Invalid switches and/or
files without switches will be ignored! No other parameters should follow
the response file name on the command line and will be ignored if they do.
A sample of this format appears below:

TCLIB libname @rspfile

To accomplish what was done in the full command line example previously,
the response file should contain the following:

-absread
+scanf
+fprintf
+plot
*write
*writea


I am very interested in hearing comments and suggestions
concerning this product. My Compuserve ID is 74126,60 and my phone and
address are given at the top. I plan to optimize this product for better
speed during the delete and append processes, as well as add more
features, such as a full symbolic cross reference but I felt the product
would best serve the many users of Turbo C who either aren't happy with
the speed of the Microsoft librarian, or who like myself, don't have it,
if I got it out there quickly. Thanks in advance for your support!

Rodney B. RIch
Panama City Software



TCLIB is (c) copyright 1987



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