Hello Tom!

 VJ>> WASM (WatCom C 10.x),
 RS>> It's rather strange assembler (syntax is poor).
 TT> What do you mean ? It's MASM-compatible...

Here is a cut from Watcom Assembler reference:

 Other assemblers support directives that this assembler does not.  The
following is a list of directives that are ignored by the Watcom Assembler
(use of these directives results in a warning message).

      .alpha         .cref          .lfcond        .list
      .listall       .listif        .listmacro     .listmacroall
      .nocref        .nolist        page           .sall
      .seq           .sfcond        subtitle       subttl
      .tfcond        title          .xcref         .xlist

 The following is a list of directives that are flagged by the Watcom
Assembler (use of these directives results in an error message).

      addr           .break         casemap        catstr
      .continue      echo           endmacro       .endw
      .exit          high           highword       invoke
      low            lowword        lroffset       mask
      opattr         option         popcontext     proto
      purge          pushcontext    .radix         record
      .repeat        .startup       this           typedef
      union          .until         .while         width

I don't like this. I frequently use 'record', 'high', 'low', 'purge',
'union', etc. in my programs and I think that assembler not supporting
'record' is not an assmbler. Morever, it cannot pretend even to be called
'assembler'. So I use tasm, it's really nice, especially in ideal mode.

Bye!
Rinat Sadretdinow                                              [Team OS/2]

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