From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: defb 0, and others Article-I.D.: ucb.1296 Posted: Sun Jun 6 23:57:11 1982 Received: Mon Jun 7 05:22:40 1982 >From shawn.mit-ccc@BRL Sun Jun 6 23:57:02 1982 I have an 8080 instruction set, that I have used in an attempt to convert Z80 assembly, into VALID INS8080A code, I have noticed ( in looking through some of the .asm files in mc:cpm;ar** some of the following, and wonder if someone out there, could help me out as that I have NEVER seen anything in the instruction set that looks like this, I wonder, could this (comeing from the ccp, and others), be part of a bios_bdos call? (I have never even seen a bios in source or hex or com form, nor Have I seen a bdos, So you see I know not what I am getting into, nor if this stuff is valid as it has been defined by bdos or bios, could some one help? I will put some of the calls in question below.. db cr,lf,'this is a line of text, to be sent to console?' db cr,lf,eos That is one, FOO EQU 00H ;Now I know what this is trying to do BAR EQU 00A ;but how can it be valid?!?!? as well as, DW FOO DB 'FOO' and don't forget, MOVE EQU $+OFFSET ;<== This line ** MOV A,M ;get byte STAX D ;save it INX D ;point to next address INX H ; " " " " DCR B ;decrement length JNZ MOVE ;if not done, loop JMP DEFBUF+20H ;go to segment.. <== Here as well The following from PASWRD.ASM, (or most of it), but I do not under stand some of the functions, and all I am left to assume /hope, is that bdos or bios is going to catch them, what do you all say????? (I KNOW it must work, BUT HOW!!!!!).. Thanx in advance Yours In hacking -shawn