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  · DriverStudio          Eliminate that annoying "Last line incomplete" message from BUILD
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  · Previews              Anyone who builds NT drivers with the DDK's BUILD utility has seen output
  · Compatibility         something like this:
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                          BUILD: Compile and Link for i386
 Wizards                  BUILD: Loading d:\ddknt\build.dat...
  · Utilities             BUILD: Computing Include file dependencies:
  · NT source             BUILD: c:\program files\devstudio\vc\include\ws2atm.h(440): last line incomplete
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  · VxD source            The last line of the above is a warning from BUILD indicating that the terminating
 examples                 character of the include file is not a newline. The reason that BUILD warns about
  · WDM source            this is that if the last line of the include file is a #define, then some
 examples                 preprocessors may continue the definition with subsequent characters from the
 [Resources]  ·           input stream. This could lead to a very nasty bug.
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  · Useful links          To remove the potential for such a bug, and to get rid of the annoying warning
  · Technical tips        message, you can download Vireo's LastLine utility. LastLine is a console app that
 [Support]  ·             you can run to clean up any .h files that are not correctly terminated.
 Support                  Here is the command syntax for LastLine:
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  · Problem               lastline [-s -r -q -x ] directory-path
 submission                -s  recurse subdirectories
  · Product                -q  quiet
 registration              -r  report offending files without modifying
  · Release notes          -x  exit on error
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 Buy it!                  Example:
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  · How to buy            C:\test> lastline -s d:\mstools
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                          Sample output

 [Y2K Compliance]         D:\TOOLS> lastline -s d:\mstools
                          lastline v1.0 - fixes "Last line incomplete" errors from BUILD
                          Copyright (c) 1998 Vireo Software, Inc.
 [More information]
                          lastline: modifying d:\mstools\include\PDH.H
                          lastline: modifying d:\mstools\include\RASSAPI.H
                          lastline: modifying d:\mstools\include\WS2ATM.H
                          lastline: 218 include files scanned, 3 files modified

                          You can view the source code for LastLine, and download the program.

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