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From: dmt@hocsl.UUCP
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Subject: Help with PCDOS problem
Message-ID: <168@hocsl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 21:58:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 21:58:32 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:38:54 EDT
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HELP! I thank those who suggested [unsuccessful] fixes
to my problem, but they didn't work. I have now narrowed it down
to, "I must be doing something very stupid; somebody please
set me straight."

I now have an assembly language program whose entire script is:

abc	segment	common
xyz	proc
	assume	cs:abc,ds:abc
;
	int	20H	; don't do anything, just halt
;
xyz	endp
abc	ends
	end

If I run it under DEBUG, it terminates normally.
If I run it from a .BIN file (even right after a boot),
the system hangs.  It DOES compile OK, into the single
interrupt instruction.
I've done this on three different PCDOS machines, each
with its own system disk.  Same result each time.

Does anybody out there know what I'm forgetting?
Thanks in advance.
			Dave Tutelman