Subj : Short executables
To   : David Noon
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Thu Feb 01 2001 12:48 pm

Hello David,

Monday 29 January 2001 20:58, David Noon wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

ET>> Hmm, maybe I'll try to assemble this, does TASM do the job?

DN> That depends on which TASM you have. If it supports .MODEL FLAT then
DN> you are in luck.

No, it doesn't, but then again it's only the DOS version. I've some version of 
a Borland C for OS/2 on floppy, but I don't have time for that.

ET>> I don't have a real OS/2 assembler, where would I find a decent one?
ET>> I can vaguely remember ALP, does that ring a bell?

DN> ALP is the IBM assembler for OS/2. It is bundled with the OS/2 Warp
DN> Developer's Toolkit 4.0 and the OS/2 Device Driver Kit 4.0. The latter
DN> can be downloaded from one of IBM's Web sites.

I can barely keep up with the messages.

ET>> Yet another approach would be to do it in REXX or in a batch
ET>> file, they have the same functionality (display a small message)
ET>> and are smaller. ;-))

DN> But that requires that the command shell and, in the former case, REXX
DN> interpreter be loaded, so its memory footprint is a couple of hundred
DN> kilobytes larger.

O yes, that's true. :)


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

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