Novis question (Novis? last used assembler 30 years back!).

I run the DOS FASMD.EXE from the command line on an XP and on Win98 computers.
Testing on my proven assenbler program does not compile. It simply opens the assembler and stays at the first line.

I tried the same with the flat demo (COMDEMO.ASM) and got the same.
On a DOS computer it lacks the 32-DPMI service.

What am I doing wrong???

sam

fasm source.??? destination.???

it's not so hard

or use the fasmW ide for windows.

FASMD is the DOS IDE (editor + assembler in one). You have to open the file (F4) you wish to assemble (Ctrl+F9) first if you didn't specify it on the cmdline. Otherwise, just run normal FASM to assemble only (no editor): fasm myfile.asm

On DOS, you probably have EMM386 loaded, so you have to run a DPMI server first (CWSDPMI, HDPMI32, or whatever). But it doesn't need that if you run w/o EMM386 (real mode vs. V86 mode which EMM386 switches to).

> I run the DOS FASMD.EXE from the command line on an XP

Use FASMW.EXE or FASM.EXE (Windows) instead.

> On a DOS computer it lacks the 32-DPMI service.

Need HDPMI32 (or CWSDPMI at worst).

> On DOS, you probably have EMM386 loaded

Why

> so you have to run a DPMI server first (CWSDPMI, HDPMI32, or whatever).

YES.

> But it doesn't need that if you run w/o EMM386 (real mode vs. V86 mode which EMM386 switches to).

True only for console compiler-only version, FASMD IDE always needs DPMI.

PS: seems I have 500 posts by now. Reports 504, but finds only 500 then