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 References: <7325@j.cc.purdue.edu> <6409@well.UUCP> <1800@looking.UUCP> <4672@killer.UUCP> <1808@looking.UUCP> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 35 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......... -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.