RL>I'm fairly new to assembler (not quite a year), and up to now, i've only
RL>used it with the turbo languages (inline asm).  Now I have written a 
program
RL>entirely in assembler, but within Turbo Pascal.  It goes like this:
RL>program Doofus;
RL>begin
RL>asm;
RL>...
RL>end;
RL>end.
RL>What do I have to change to turn my tp-inline program into a standalone 
SM
RL>file that would compile with TASM or MASM ?
with TASM you could do something like this:
******
IDEAL ; use TASM's "ideal" mode - somewhat different syntax for operators and
; for directives
SMART ; let TASM handle PUSHing/POPping multiple constants on one line, and
      ; automatic macros to emulate higher-processor instructions
MODEL  LARGE, PASCAL ; let it automatically take care of the segments and the
; stack frame
STACK 1024 ; allocate a stack with plenty of room for interrupts
; personally I'd recommend against making a stack too small, but that's up to
; you.
CODESEG
P286 ; tell it to compile in 286 mode
STARTUPCODE ; TASM built-in macro to prepare the data, stack, and code
            ; segments for the appropriate model
; then here goes the assembly code, minus the delimiters pascal need
EXITCODE ; TASM built-in macro to appropriately exit the program, with exit
         ; code in AX.
END
******
RL>BTW the program is a speedy version of the Munching Squares ( Y = X xor T 
).
RL>Uses 2 bytes of stack space (push 0a000h, pop es) that could easily be
RL>removed.  No variables, no memory allocation.  It's as plain as you can 
get.
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