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Frustrating

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From: Antony Smith
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:00
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	I tried learning ASM about 6 months ago , downloaded tons of
manuals , letters , asm code etc. I gave up in frustration , as the
ONLY thing I've ever managed to compile so far was the 'hallo.asm'
file. I even read 6 chapters of Randolph Hyde AOA , but that was in
masm , and I do not have access to a masm program.
	What really made me give up is that OVER 90% of all
'HELP'source files posted here DO NOT COMPILE. I thank the chap that
posts them , but get an ERROR , generally from tlink , sometimes from
tasm , can't really complain , they are trying to help me , but the
CODE JUST DOES NOT WORK.
	As an example , someone posted this recently:(my comments
after colons)
> Any know of any tools that will allow you to copy the Hex values of a binary
> file and paste them to a text file, like an assembler file?

copy con cmd.txt  ; ok , I've done this before.It writes a text file 
d0 lnumber_of_bytes ; D0 I12 for example ?????
q    ;OK , leave debug
^Z ; F6 <enter> .....could have explained , from DOS days

; OK so that writes a text file

debug filename.bin <cmd.txt >out.txt

;for example debug notepad.exe <cmd.txt>out.txt ;??

;well , DOS freezes , but I get an out.txt , 
;that contains 18 bytes , but it is exactly the 
;same , does not matter what binary file I use.
;understand the frustration I feel ??

OK , so a request. Could someone send me the source for a program that
converts lowercase to uppercase ,
input asdfg
output ASDFG

and one that multiplies and adds
input NUMBER    ; example 124
output ADD or MULTIPLY ?
input MULTIPLY
input 5
output 620

Something that compiles with tasm and tlink and
commented so I learn something ??? :-)
TIA and after if I manage to learn something.
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From: smithafPLEASE@mii.nutecnet.com.brTAKETHISOFF (Antony Smith)
Subject: Frustrating
Date: 1998/10/28
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