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: <1808@looking.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 88 04:18:21 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Yes, we all put different extensions into our assemblers, many of them
useful, but there is a standard format.  That format should be handled
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.

(You can import text files into PAL's use of Basic source if you line
number the file and use the redirection of input trick well known on
PETS etc. for merging files.  You can even use auto line number mode
in various packages that do this.  I won't mention one famous one. :-)

Of course, that this portable format exists will probably not make anybody
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.)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473