PF> Btw -- why go to so much trouble writing a library that already comes with 
PF> each compiler?

Hi Peter.  Had another reason today.  A program of mine abended,
so I recompiled with Watcom with debug on, and ran it again,
and it STILL abended, but the debugger told me the problem was
in some purgefile() function [or something] which was obviously
a compiler library, and although I'm pretty sure there's a problem
in MY code, I don't know where it is, and it would help if it
would tell me which thing has got corrupted.  So I recompiled with
PDPCLIB with the intention of finding out what was getting corrupted.
The recompile with PDPCLIB made the problem go away, so I didn't
bother investigating further.  If the problem happens again with
PDPCLIB, then I will continue the debugging.

BTW, other people besides me like to replace the compiler's
startup code.  I don't know why they do it.  BFN.  Paul.
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