LINK386 Error 2002 can be caused by the following conditions:

• A group is larger than 64K.
  
• The program contains an intersegment short jump or intersegment short call.
  
• The name of a data item in the program conflicts with that of a subroutine in a library included in the link.
  
• An EXTRN declaration in an assembler language source file appeared inside the body of a segment, as in the following example:

  code    SEGMENT public  'CODE'
          EXTRN   main:far
  start   PROC    far
          call    main
          ret
  start   ENDP
  code    ENDS
  

  The following construction is preferred:

          EXTRN   main:far
  code    SEGMENT public  'CODE'
  start   PROC    far
          call    main
          ret
  start   ENDP
  code    ENDS