robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) (08/29/85)
I have the initial release versions of Tandy's MS-Assembler and
Videotex 2000, both of which are real bow-wows.
The assembler doesn't assemble 80186 opcodes (it doesn't recognize
PUSHA, for example), and the linker has to be thrown out and replaced
with the one on the MS-DOS 2.11 distribution disk.
Videotex 2000 is a joke. My copy refuses to upload copies at 1200
baud, and goes into an infinite loop if the file doesn't end with a
control-Z, sending the file over and over until you reset the system.
Since MS-DOS text files aren't required to end with a control-Z, this
is a serious bug. (The program should simply have gotten the file
length from DOS and sent that many bytes.) There also are a few
screen glitches if you use DOS 2.11 and DOS 2.11's ANSI.SYS.
Are there newer versions of these programs? Patches? Suggestions?
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Robert Plamondon
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