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a collection of messages sent at Atari from 1983 to 1992.

New ASM68 (kim only, for now)

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	I have very recently (a few minutes ago) finished a command
parser for ASM68.  The old method used to be done in DCL, and was very
messy and slow.  The new method is in assembly, is still messy, but
it SHOULD be faster.  Along the way, I found several bugs in Intermetric's
stuff that I had to work around, plus the usual quota of DEC bugs.
I think I caught them all, but you know me!

	As usual, if any of your programs should be caught, or killed,
I will disavow any knowlege of my actions.

	All seriousness aside, if the new way doesn't work, you can use
the old way by saying OLDASM68 instead of the (former and now new) ASM68
command.

sas

more of the same

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	Oh yeah, if you do find bugs in my program, please tell me about them.


... gently.

Guess who?

More changes for the sake of change

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	Per Jim Morris' request, I have changed ASM68 yet again.
This time, I tried to trap errors and warnings from the compiler
and return them so that command files executing the ASM68 command
may successfully determine if the ASSEMBLER exited with an
error (or warning) status.  If they exit the program after complaining
about errors without passing along the fact that they are exiting
in an error (or warning) status, there isn't anything I can do.
But at least the command file will tell you different things now,
where it used to always say that everything was fine.

sas
Message 1 of 3

Aug 15, 1985