The names are ordered by occurrence and referenced by index from subsequent records. More than one LNAMES record may appear. The names themselves are used as segment, class and group names.

   1 byte  2 bytes
  ┌───────┬────────────────┬---
  │  96   │ Record         │
  │       │  Length        │
  └───────┴────────────────┴---

          <-------- String Length ------->  1 byte
       --┌──────┬──────────────────────────┬───────┐
         │String│     Name                 │Chk Sum│
         │Length│       String             │or 0   │
       --└──────┴──────────────────────────┴───────┘
          <---------- repeated ----------->

Each name appears in count/char format, and a null name is valid. The character set is ASCII.

NOTES:

The linker imposes a limit of 255 logical names per object module.

Any LNAMES records in an object module must appear before the records that refer to them. Because it does not refer to any other type of object record, an LNAMES record usually appears near the start of an object module.