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Re: TASM? Help compiling SNEWS

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00
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Peter Hayward (peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>    I have the horrible feeling I'm about to make a fool of my but anyway
>    here goes.
> 
>    I wanted to explore some alternative thread displays in SNEWS so I
>    got the source of 1.30 from ftp.d.c.u and, as the first thing to do,
>    tried to recompile it.  No problem with the C code but the assembler
>    routines gave something over 500 compile time errors with every
>    version of MASM I could lay my hands on.
> 
>    Now the question.  Is this something to do with TASM specific 'ideal'
>    mode coding? or am I doing something incredibly silly with, for
>    example, the MASM command like options?  If the former I'm rather up
>    the creek as I don't have TASM.  If it is a TASM problem would
>    someone in a good mode please email be the .OBJ files for the
>    assembler bits.  I very much doubt I would want to change them. So
>    provided I have something to link in I should be all set to start
>    some experiments.

Yes, it is TASM specific as I recall.

If you can wait until the weekend, I can do the necessary as you
request.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                     322 Regents Park Road
England                                        London N3 2QQ
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