More Assembley

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	Okay, I'm begining to really dislike assembly.  How would I do
this program under nasm?

Thanks,
Anthony

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> That looks like Microsoft DOS (MASM).
> "Anthony J. Gabrielson" wrote:
> > hello,	
> > 	I have copied a nice small program out of my assembly book that
> > won't compile.  I was wondering if somebody might know why?
> > 
> > .MODEL SMALL
> > .STACK 100H
> > .DATA
> > name_msg        DB 'Please enter your name:  ',0
> > query_msg       DB 'How many times to repeat welcome msg?  ',0
> > confirm_msg1    DB 'Repeat welcome msg ',0
> > confirm_msg2    DB ' time (y/n) ',0
> > welcome_msg     DB 'Welcome to Assembly Language Programming ',0
> > 
> > user_name       DB 16 DUP (?) ;Buffer for user name
> > response        DB ?
> > 
> > .CODE
> > INCLUDE io.mac
> > 
> > main PROC
> >         .STARTUP
> >         PutStr  name_msg
> >         nwln
> >         GetStr  user_name,16
> >         nwln
> > ask_count:
> >         PutStr  query_msg                                                    
> >   
> >         GetInt  CX
> >         nwln
> >         PutStr  confirm_msg1
> >         PutInt  CX
> >         PutStr  confirm_msg2
> >         GetCh   response
> >         nwln
> >         cmp     response,'y'
> >         nwln
> >         jne     ask_count
> > display_msg:
> >         PutStr  welcome_msg
> >         PutStr  user_name
> >         nwln
> >         loop    display_msg
> >         .EXIT
> > main    ENDP
> >         END     main 
> > 
> > I get these errors:
> > test.asm:1: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:1: attempt to define a local label before any non-local labels
> > test.asm:2: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:2: attempt to define a local label before any non-local labels
> > test.asm:3: attempt to define a local label before any non-local labels
> > test.asm:10: comma expected after operand 1
> > test.asm:14: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:16: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:18: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:20: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:21: symbol `nwln' redefined
> > test.asm:23: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:23: symbol `PutStr' redefined
> > test.asm:24: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:25: symbol `nwln' redefined
> > test.asm:26: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:26: symbol `PutStr' redefined
> > test.asm:27: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:28: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:28: symbol `PutStr' redefined
> > test.asm:29: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:30: symbol `nwln' redefined
> > test.asm:32: symbol `nwln' redefined        
> > test.asm:35: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:35: symbol `PutStr' redefined
> > test.asm:36: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:36: symbol `PutStr' redefined
> > test.asm:37: symbol `nwln' redefined
> > test.asm:40: parser: instruction expected
> > test.asm:40: symbol `main' redefined
> > test.asm:41: parser: instruction expected
> > 
> > I used the command nasm test.asm
> > 
> > Anyway I am greatly confused - I thought I understood 'At Least a little
> > bit'
> > 
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Anthony
> > 
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> Gerald Feldman <gaf at mediaone.net>
> Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting
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