Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!elg
From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Last call for votes on comp.binaries.cbm and comp.sources.cbm
Message-ID: <4728@killer.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 88 04:18:35 GMT
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In message <1808@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP says:
>by the largest variety of assemblers.  It may only allow 6 character
>labels, and that's a pain, but it's the only format that will go through
>several.

And I, for one, will never post a file with 6-character labels! I gave
up that kind of torture long ago... somewhere after I gave up using
1541's for program development, I think :-). I'm not enough of a
sado-masochist to submit myself to that kind of torture....

HOWEVER: There IS a solution. A long LOOONG time ago, I wrote a
preprocessor for the Commodore assembler that would take long labels
and squash them down into short nonsense-looking labels. I don't think
I have it anymore, that was hmmmm 1983? 1984?, but, it wasn't all
that difficult of a program to write (not all that difficult? Wha's
this guy on, you ask? Well, my guru had just taught me about state
diagrams and state machines...).


>put there posted programs in it, so there isn't a good solution.  I know
>of at least one PAL compatible assembler called Buddy.  Do not buy the
>"Assembler/Monitor 64" from Data Becker, which is a pirated PAL.  (As far
>as I know this doesn't reflect on other Abacus products.)

As far as *I* know, it DOES. Every Abacus product that I have ever
seen, with the possible exception of their BASIC compiler (which is
merely excrutiatingly slow), has been a pile of garbage. Their "C" is
a joke, their books are only marginally useful (does save a little
paper compared to printing out my own disassemblies, though), their
Pascal compiler barfs on spaces in the wrong places.........

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