From: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" <VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi>
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To: rob AT inglenook DOT co DOT uk
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:42:39 +0200
Subject: NASM AND AS
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Dear Mr Robert Anderton, UK

I am so new with these assemblers, that I need some help.

I keep on installing these other programs - this time assemblers -, until I
find good enough strip (I don't mean beautiful model with large bra, as you
can imagine ;-) to C/C++, Fortran and Pascal.

1) NASM AND NASM-IDE INSTALLATION
I have installed to my HP 486/50 "veteran home typewriter" in Dos programs:
Nasm 0.98, Nasm-Ide 1.4 and Nasmdoc from http://nasm.2y.net/ (Please don't use
.pang picture. Pig is common used) sites.

I also have installed Jeff Duntermann "Assembly Language Step-by Step", Second
edition, 1999 CD stuff (Dos and Linux). In CD there were older version of Nasm
and Nasm-Ide. I don't install these older versions.

I put first Nasm location C:\DJGPP\NASM\ without program name.

When I tried to assemble in directory 
C:\DJGPP\NASM\EXAMPLES\ 
file BAR.ASM I got to screen following error message:
- Unknown Spawno error code 2

And error information
- Error - unable to open error log.
Where is error log???

I change the Nasm location to 
C:\DJGPP\NASM\NASM.EXE 
and it helps.

I tried to assemble program again 
and error information was:
C:\DJGPP\NASM\EXAMPLES\BAR.ASM: 19; error: unrecognised directive [ORG]

and in line 19 was:
[ORG 0x0100] ; Set code start address to 100h (COM file)

Same error occurs in every examples and few others.

Have you tested these examples?

What should I do? 


2) NASMEDIT
Do I need nasmedit.zip somewhere or is it enough to install Nasm and Nasm-Ide
for programming?


3) NASM AND AS
Can I use same Nasm source code (*.asm) in Gnu/ Djgpp As (*.s)?


P.S. Our ice-hockey team "Oulun Kärpät = Oulu's Stoats, http://www.oulunkarpat.fi/"
won (used sledge-hammer) "Helsingin Jokerit = Helsinki's Jokers, http://www.jokerit.com/"
7-2 tonight and try take part in semi-final. And Oulun LuistinSeura (OLS) won
Finnish championchip in bandy (ice-ball) 2001, too. We go in for sports here
in high-tech city of Oulu, too, indeed.

Thanks in advance

Veli Suorsa
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