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to: Jon Guthrie
from: Curt Bates
date: 1994-10-12 13:46:00
subject: Assembler For Os/2

JG>06 Oct 94, Curt Bates writes to All:

 > Does anybody know if Borland sell just TASM for OS/2?  Is there any
 > other asembler for OS/2?

JG>Well, there's MASM 5.1, which I got on the Device Driver 
JG>Source CD-ROM. There's also the GNU Assembler, if you can 
JG>put up with the wierd syntax, and I understand that Watcom 
JG>has an assembler that will produce OS/2 32-bit .OBJ files.

JG>(BTW, I say that GNU Assembler syntax is "wierd" but it is in many
JG>ways superior to what MASM wants.   I've been doing quite a bit 
JG>of OS/2 assembler recently and I am sometimes frustrated by 
JG>the gyrations I have to go through because MASM tries to 
JG>guess what I mean instead of requiring that I describe it 
JG>precisely.)

JG>- Jon

Looks like GNU is what I what to look at first.

Thanks.
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