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Article #123Frustrating
From: Antony Smith
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:00
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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