Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Last call for votes on comp.binaries.cbm and comp.sources.cbm
Message-ID: <1800@looking.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 04:14:29 GMT
References: <7325@j.cc.purdue.edu> <6409@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <6409@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	A guess:  I would suspect that it has something to do with the fact
>that there are so many #&^%!* different source code formats, depending on
>whose assembler you use.

There is an "official" source code format, namely the one supported by
the CBM assembler, my own PAL assembler and its clones.  Not that this
will stop people from providing stuff in different formats.

The official format is:
	Free Format (no indent required)
	All 6502 opcodes reserved words
	=, *=, .byte, .word, .end  are official pseudo-ops
	Address mode formats as in the books, ie:  (addr),y
	and "rol a"

Of course, I and most others added far more than this to the various
assemblers.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473