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LLF v2.2

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Announcing version v2.2 of LLF so watch out, it may blow up. There are a
great number of changes in this release mostly in order to complete the
port to the Atari ST, and hopefully nothing much different than v2.1 
(the one you've been using) as far as the VAX is concerned.

Differences you might want to know about:

The command line processor has been replaced and no longer uses callbacks to the
VMS's CLI. This means that the command line interpreting may not be as robust as
is used to be. It also means command qualifiers may be abbreviated to 1
character (no check for ambiguity is done). Commas between filenames are treated
as white space so white space may substituted for commas. Multiple option files
are allowed and they allow two new options:

	FILE (filename ...)
	LIBRARY (filename ...)

There may any number of filenames specified in either of the commands separated
by white space or commas. Specifying filenames in a FILE directive allows LLF
to run slightly faster than forcing it to extract filenames from a library.

I also should reiterate the points about constants expressed in an option file.
They are interpreted as constants are in C, that is assumed to be decimal unless
prefixed with a 0 which means octal or a 0x (or #) which means hex. Comments
are delimited with a double dash (--) or exclamation point (!) and end-of-line.
The C comment construct of /* and */ can also be used to comment text across
multiple lines.

More details about LLF may be found in DOK:LLF.DOC

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Jun 17, 1987