rc>     If it's the same spawn.asm that came with the other releases, then I 
rc> already have it:

I have changed it slightly with 3.1, here is the diff...

112,123c112
< 	IFDEF	PASCAL
< 	.model	tpascal
< ;
< 	extrn	prefixseg: word
< ;
< ptrsize	=	1
< 	ELSE
< 	IFNDEF	MODL
< 	.model	small,c
< 	ELSE
< %	.model	MODL,c
< 	ENDIF
---
> 	.model	large,c
128d116
< 	ENDIF

rc>     It's bloody 45k in size! But I'll have a look. Are you assembling it 
rc> correctly?

rc> ; Assemble with
rc> ;
rc> ; tasm  /DPASCAL spawn,spawnp           - Turbo Pascal (Tasm only), near
rc> ; tasm  /DPASCAL /DFARCALL spawn,spawnp - Turbo Pascal (Tasm only), far
rc> ; ?asm  spawn;                          - C, default model (small)
rc> ; ?asm  /DMODL=large spawn              - C, large model

I am using wasm, not tasm.

rc>     I presume you'd use /DMODL=large spawn

I'm just going "wasm spawn.asm".  I think I've already changed all
that crap to get around that model and pascal stuff.

rc>     What sort of errors is the assembler giving you, are they
"global" or 
rc> does it spit out line numbers. I can't help much unless I know where to 
rc> start looking....

Below is the messages that I get.  If you can tell me what exactly
is non-MASM conforming about the lines in error, maybe I can do
something about it.

rc>     I don't have MASM so I can't test its "MASMablity" ...
which is a pity 
rc> as I'll need it soon to play with the compiler I'm working on. Anyone got a 
rc> copy of MASM they'd like to give me? ;-)

I've never seen a copy of MASM in my life.  Probably because
they don't bundle it with Microsoft C.  BFN.  Paul.

spawn.asm(197): Error! E149: This instruction is not supported
spawn.asm(251): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(251): Error! E081: Offset cannot be smaller than WORD size
spawn.asm(259): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(259): Error! E081: Offset cannot be smaller than WORD size
spawn.asm(260): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(260): Error! E081: Offset cannot be smaller than WORD size
spawn.asm(261): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(261): Error! E081: Offset cannot be smaller than WORD size
spawn.asm(268): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(269): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(298): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(298): Error! E065: Invalid instruction operands
spawn.asm(299): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(299): Error! E065: Invalid instruction operands
spawn.asm(320): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(320): Error! E065: Invalid instruction operands
spawn.asm(328): Error! E102: Operator is expected
spawn.asm(328): Error! E065: Invalid instruction operands
spawn.asm(349): Error! E102: Operator is expected
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