MSC 6.0 failing under VPIX.

[Eric Gisin]

In-reply-to: NU013809 at NDSUVM1.BITNET's message of 24 Sep 90 13:02:18 GMT
> [the MS linker fails on non-DOS drives in SCO VP/ix]

There is a known problem with VP/ix on Interactive UNIX (not fixed in 2.2).
A write of 0 bytes is supposed to truncate the file at the current file position.
This is documented DOS behaviour and does not work in VP/ix on UNIX drives.

This may not be the bug that cause MS link to fail, but it
is possible that the linker seeks back and forth in the file
re-writing things. It should be easy to write a test program that
checks for bugs in both these operations.