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 >I'm assuming that the code below is hello.asm and you've assembled 
with NASM
 >like so:
 >nasm -f coff -o hello.obj hello.asm

I had compiled with nasm -f win32 hello.asm

Nasm confuses me a lot ..among linux ,dos 16 and 32,windows...
I've Win XP .............
then -f win32 should be the right option....why not ?
I shouldn't complicate my "assembly" life....I'd like to have a short
assembly code for Windows ...( no metter if with or without Dos call)...
just to see something working !
To see if nasm and gcc can work together...
Many thanks.

PS- your code below gets >>>
C:\> nasm -f bin -o hello.com hello.asm
pass = 1 (1,1,1)
hello.asm:18: error: label or instruction expected at start of line

...I've added a lot of labels ( _label ) but ....


; nasm -f bin -o hello.com hello.asm
BITS 16
ORG 0x100

SECTION .text ; code section

   push cs
   pop ds ; offset portion of pointer to string
   mov dx, msg ; segment portion of pointer to string
   mov ah,09h ; write string command to int 21 hex
   int 0x21 ; interrupt 21 hex, call DOS

   mov al,0 ; exit code, 0=normal
   mov ah,4ch ; exit command to kernel
   int 0x21 ; interrupt 21 hex, call DOS

msg: db "Hello World",13,10,'$' ; the string to print, 10=cr, 13=lf,
$=terminator