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Message-ID: <01BC0991.68175A00@nj-dialup236.cnct.com>
From: John Panettiere <jmarco AT cnct DOT com>
To: "'Colin W. Glenn'" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Cc: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: RE: [opendos] Rants and Raves
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:54:22 -0500
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      On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:
> > You might consider using A86 instead of the others, it has better speed
> 
> The only way it could be used is if it had the exact behavior of MASM.
> I'm pretty sure that some of these modules are taking advantage of

Matter of fact, if I remember right, (it's been years since I checked the
docs,), there's a switch to force it to act like that 'inferior' 
assembler.  If any are interested, I'll send the docs.

Yes, I think A86 ships with "fake.exe", which you can rename to masm.exe and it should theoretically work the same way.

John Panettiere





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