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Mike, There is a world of difference between "extending" a standard and totally rewriting a standard. Lattice's object format changes were evolutionary, in that "old format" object files would work fine with the new, extended format. Their evolved linker worked with any objects conforming to the new standard. Manx's creation of the alternate standard, however, took things in a totally different direction. Didn't work with anyone else's linker, nor could you do mixed-language development very easily. IMHO, it is because of Manx's departure from the original Object-file standard that the Amiga world is a real Tower of Babel, with little capability to combine the various programming languages into a single, multi-language project. Your statement that Lattice "broke the Amiga standard here as well" is taking things a bit far. Do you consider the changes Manx made in 5.0 to have "broken the Manx standard"? After all, programs written for 5.0 can't be compiled by 3.6. To my way of thinking, that's just an evolutionary growth, much the same as Lattice's _gross distortion of the Amiga object format standard_. …BobR