org 100h
include b.txt

mov ax,4c00h
int 21h

these statements will get infinite loop

org 100h
include "b.txt"

mov ax,4c00h
int 21h

and with string delimitor, it works

i assemble with 1.57v

It should show an "invalid argument" error - and so does when I test it.

that's weird, I got dead loop on my machine

What system and which package are you using?

winxp sp2
package is this version

the included file can be anything, including empty file. once including the delimitor, it works fine, otherwise always got dead loop. I have msn: tdz_canton@hotmail.com, you can add me

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version 1.57
[19-01-2005]
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[-] cleanups and bugfixes

version 1.56
[27-09-2004]
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[+] another small update of documentation
[-] internals cleanup

works fine in v1.56, should be cleanup problem, i think

D:\Dev\ASM\Token>fasm a.txt a
flat assembler version 1.56
a.txt [1]:
include b.txt
error: invalid argument.

I'm still not able to reproduce it

did you modify the include statement analysis part? or somewhere could affect the operation of include operation?

More probably something is happening during the error message displaying...

When I asked about which package are you using, I meant whether it is DOS, Win32 console, or Win32 GUI version.

oh, sorry! I just tested it with

fasm 1.56 dos version, filesize 61672, it works fine.

fasm 1.57 dos version(i think), filesize 61664, it doesn't work, i found that the INCLUDE 000000 string seems missed at the end of fasm.exe, but it exists in 1.56

please add a string to the title to indicate which package for later version