Hello,

I wil to start with assembler under dos, i have download flat assembler version 1.67.15.

I have copy this code:


then i save it if c:\exedemo.asm and i wil to start the fasm program.
i type:
C:\>fasm exedemo.asm exedemo.exe

then i have a error:
missing end quote
I cannot found ware is the problem?

my operating system is MS-DOS

--edit--
i think i have found the problem:
i must type
C:\>fasm <exedemo.asm> [exedemo.exe]

then have i the follow error:
File creation error

Can you help my please?


thank you

At least works with the Windows command line version. Are you sure that your ASM source is exactly the same that the one you posted? If that is the case then note that to exit to DOS the function is 4Ch, not 4h, so this is the correct sequence
Your code without this modification was capable of hang my computer for a while, the mouse pointer was very hard to move but finally I reached de X button to kill it

your program was probably still running, so FASM couldn't overwrite it

MS-DOS is not a multi-task OS

he might have been running DOS app from Windoze - quite common case

Thank you for you answer.
I tell you my problem:

I have a PC a 80386 with MS-dos (not windows!). And I wil programming with assembler. I have download flat assembler version 1.67.15

I type the program in a texteditor (WP5.1) and i save this if exedemo.asm.

then go i return to dos.
and i type C:\> fasm <exedemo.asm> [exedemo.exe]
And then have i the next error: File creation error.

If i know your anwer my source code is not good?
Can you view my the good code?

its my first program in assembler, i have make first program voor microcontroller in assembler (http://www.atmel.com) and i wil now make a program for communications at PC and microcontroller with the COM-port. and i cannot program the pc (386).

thank you

> and i type C:\> fasm <exedemo.asm> [exedemo.exe]

there is a slight missunderstanding here. The "[" and "]" displayed by fasm if called without parameters are not meant to be typed in, they are telling that this parameter is optional. If you type them, fasm cannot create the output file and displays this "file creation error" message.

thank you for you answer

Can you tel my what i must type then?

if i know i must do not type the "[" and "]". what do i type then?
if i type: C:\>fasm <exedeme.asm> then have i the error:
File creation error.

thank you

--edit--
I have test it:
c:\>fasn>exedemo
and then have i not a error, and not a exe file. Can you tel wat i must do to make from a .asm a .exe file?
e am sorry its to run the file.

you have to type:

thank you,

i do it and then have i the next message:

flat assembler version 1.67.15 (3008 kilobytes memory)
exedemo.asm [11]:
"( he let view a heart)
error: missing end quote.

whats then the problem?

or your real exedemo.asm was modified and has this line No.11, which is wrong for assembler syntaxis, or you have strange text editor, etc.

try to use new unmodified copy from demo archive.

try to test your situation with text files test.asm: then should generate text file contains only 8 symbols: ABCDEFGH

thank you,

I have do this:
and then have the message:

flat assembler version 1.67.15 (3008 kliobytes nemory)
1 passes, 0.2 seconds, 8bytes.

and then have a not a .exe file

whats here the problem?

please be more informative. what exactly have you do?

i see 8 bytes: right! it had not be exe file, as i told, it had to be TEXT file with 8 symbols. than i think fasm works ok. now check your exedemo.asm - is it correct inside, or better take not modifyed exedemo.asm from fasm package.

another method: type in the command line and look - is it correct inside or not.

its works!

thank you

I have the code type in kladblok (a windows tekst editor) then have i this save as exedemo.asm and exedemo.txt.
then it save on a diskette and it copy to the 386 pc.

there have i type:
fasm exedemo.asm
then have a message.

then have i typed dir
and i view exedemo.exe
and then type i exedemo.exe and i view:
Hello world!

Have you good idee for a good tekst editor in dos?, i have Wordperfect 5.1
and then works this code not and i do it in a windows software and copy it from pc 1(windows) to pc2 (dos) and this works.

Thank you,
i go to learn assembler for the 386 pc.

i would suggest you to install DOS Navigator and have with it great wide featured tool with not big size. i've been using it till 2002, until a had using my 386sx as main PC.

oke, thank you, i go search to DOS navigater.

thank you,

see this:
http://decard.net/article.php