What is a 8086 relocatable?

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Published on 2012-10-25T09:41:47Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 11:04 UTC
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I'm running some Fortran software (LBLRTM) and a shell-script that prepares input generates a number of files with names TAPE3, TAPE4, etc. For debugging purposes, I used file to identify the file type. file tells me:

TAPE3:  8086 relocatable (Microsoft)

My guess is that file is wrong here, and that it's just a binary file that happens to look like a 8086 relocatable. But what is a 8086 relocatable?

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