On Monday, 96/06/03, Mike Bilow wrote to David Noon about "Force close
a MDOS sessi" as follows:

MB> However, you have 
MB> an endian bug here, since the image equivalent of "DB  02h,0FDh" is
MB> correctly "DW 0FD02h".

Hi Mike,

My copy of MASM doesn't reverse bytes when coding in hex. Neither did
BCAF 3.1, which uses TASM.

I converted these instructions into a clone of EXIT_VDM.COM. I attach
an assembly listing of this instruction sequence from MASM 6.11. The
DW in question is at location 0103.

Perhaps Microsoft, Borland and I are all wrong.

Regards

Dave


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Microsoft (R) Macro Assembler Version 6.11                06/06/96
23:17:29 EXIT_VMB.ASM              Page 1 - 1


                                ; Cobbled version of EXIT_VDM.COM, called
EXIT_VMB.COM
                                    .MODEL   TINY
 0000                               .CODE
                                    .STARTUP
 0100                          *{at}Startup:
 0100   3   33 C0                    XOR     AX,AX
 0102   2   F4                       HLT
 0103  02FD                          DW      02FDH
                                    .EXIT
 0105   4   B4 4C              *     mov   ah, 04Ch
 0107  51   CD 21              *     int   021h
                                     END

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