Q42072: Incorrect Usage of /o Switch in "Peter Norton’s Inside OS/2"

Article: Q42072
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.10
Operating System(s): OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | docerr | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 16-MAY-1989

"Peter Norton's Inside OS/2" book written by Peter Norton and Robert
Lafore, published by Brady, contains examples of OS/2 programming that
were written and compiled using the Microsoft C Optimizing compiler
Version 5.10. Page 536 of the book states the following:

   The -o option prevents the compiler from thinking that the global
   variables have been defined more than once.

This is incorrect. The /o option is an undocumented compiler switch
that allows you to name the executable file. It is the same as the /Fe
compiler switch.

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