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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:16:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
cc: pierre AT tycho DOT com, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
In-Reply-To: <m0wIAOP-000Fm3C@hn.planet.gen.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.970418201548.29763F-100000@hoth.amu.edu.pl>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:

> >don't know of good 16-bit C compilers for free (in the GPL sense), but for
> >assembler we could use NASM like Mark is already doing. One of the first
> >thing that should be done when the OpenDOS sources are done would be to
> >convert all the assembler sources we can find to NASM. Whew! Most of the
> >DOS internals are in asm, so I guess there is a lot of code to translate!
> 
> What are they currently?  And how different is NASM? the difference of AT&T
> -> Intel? or is it just formatting? :)
OD sources use TASM (several versions), RASM (an internal DRI assembler) and
MASM (also several versions). All Intel syntax.

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