Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:28:03 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: AS/DJASM
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Tom Demmer wrote:

> can somebody enlighten be about the difference between as.exe and
> djasm.exe?

DJASM is a restricted assembler (for instance, AFAIK it doesn't support
multi-file programs) whose main purpose is to produce the stub loader (see
`stub.asm' in the source distribution) without commercial tools.  If you
need a general-purpose assembler, use Gas (as.exe).