Hi Hugh!
 > I'm an infrequent user of A86.  I only use it occasionally for short
 > test programs.  So I'm not well-acquainted with it.  I ran across the
 > following problem.  At least I think it's a problem.  Perhaps I'm just
 > making a mistake:
 >
 > cseg   segment
 > assume cs:cseg
 > begin:
 >    mov ax,dseg
 >    mov ds,ax
 >
 >    mov dx,offset msg
 >    mov ah,9
 >    int 21h
 >
 >    mov ax,4c00h
 >    int 21h
 > cseg   ends
 >
 > dseg   segment
 > msg       db     "Hello, hello, hello.$"
 > dseg   ends
 >
 > end   begin
 >
 > This code aseembles correctly with TASM into an .EXE file, and runs as
 > expected.  A86 incorrectly assembles it into a .COM file which does not
 > execute properly because the first two lines of code cause A86 to place
 > 0 in DS.
       I tried this program and got basically the same thing you got, and it
printed only garbage to the screen.  So I disassembled it to see the first
two lines as this:
       mov ax, 0000
       mov ds, ax
       I wasn't sure why it was doing that.  So after playing around with it
for a bit, I found out what the problem was.  Change the line of code
reading:
       mov ax, dseg
       to:
       mov ax, seg dseg
       When I compiled it, it printed "Hello, hello, hello." to the screen
correctly.  I then disassembled it to see the first two lines of code
reading:
       mov ax, cs
       mov ds, ax
       Hope that helps...
Nick Coons
nick.coons@juno.com
Dynamic Computer Systems
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