[solved] more bother with locals

Dang, why is something that should be so easy, not?

I have a global string buffer 'fileName'. When I enter a thread I want to copy the string from 'fileName' to a local buffer '.tmp'. To begin all I want to do is get the address of .tmp

I can't figure how to do it with locals, although I do have a workaround. Just wondered where I'm going wrong. (I am using include "%fasminc%\win32ax.inc" now).

This gives 'error: invalid value'

Code:

proc threadProcessFile
    locals
        .tmp db MAX_PATH dup ?
    endl

        mov     edi, .tmp 
    .finish:
        ret
endp

This gives 'error: extra characters on line'

Code:

proc threadProcessFile
    locals
        .tmp db MAX_PATH dup ?
    endl

        mov     edi, addr .tmp

    .finish:
        ret
endp

This works but doesn't use locals...

Code:

proc threadProcessFile
        mov     edi, .tmp
    .finish:
        ret

    section '.data' data readable writeable
        .tmp    db MAX_PATH dup ?

    section '.code' code readable executable
        mov     eax, eax
endp

Thanks for any help you can give.