From: Karl Leslie Rudd <klr03 AT uow DOT edu DOT au>
Message-Id: <199701240506.QAA25193@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Rants and Raves
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 16:06:11 +1100 (EST)
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> > A86 is not very good, IMHO. I recommend NASM for many reasons, one of 
> > which is it can create object files linkable with DJGPP.

> Well, it is the only assembler which I have come across which will
> directly produce an COM file, and that was something I was looking for
> when I was writing a series of small, compact, utilities.  Besides which,
> I also know it won't produce DJGPP compatiable OBJ's because it doesn't,
> (didn't) produce 32 bit code unless set up to do so.

  Ummmm it does produce DJGPP compatible object files (COFF format).

  Karl