Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:47:50 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Michael Duxbury" <M DOT R DOT Duxbury AT btinternet DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:32:19 -0000
> 
> I have tried using the line hello:  .ascii "Hello, world!", but still get
> same error:- Parse error before 'hello'

That's because your syntax is wrong.

Why do you need the inline assembly at all?  It looks like a useless
waste of effort, since everything you want to do can be done in C.

> The other stuff you mentioned I don't really want to go there yet. Will I
> not be able to get a clean compile till I have fixed them other areas?

You can get the other stuff to compile, but it will certainly not
work.  Why bother fixing code that is guaranteed not to work?