Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:13:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: rick AT gbso DOT net
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Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 rick AT gbso DOT net wrote:

>    >>free compilers! I  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 NASM should gain some features
>    >before it becomes a really powerful assembler - namely macro
>    >support!
> Was advised recently by one of NASM's developers, that a new version,
> 0.94 is about to be released with support for conditional assembly.
> Don't know about macro support.
Is 0.94 already out? I saw a posting about NASM on c.o.m.d but no word was
about new version being out? Besides the macro support is fairly easy to
achieve - just use the C preprocessor which comes with virtually every
compiler. Sure, it's a dirty trick, but it works.