Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

2017-12-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 9, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > An assembler might be useful if I can learn how to use it. > Downloaded both. What does "upx" mean? UPX is an executable file compressor. https://upx.github.io/ > > cheers > DS > > > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:40:30 -0600 Rugxulo wri

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

2017-12-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello, Also, NASM has very good multi-platform support. It has binaries for Mac, Linux, DOS and some others. You can even cross compile easily. For example, create a dos COM executable on a Mac. http://www.nasm.us/ Unfortunately, no arm support. For that you would probably want GAS. (GNU As

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

2017-12-09 Thread Dale E Sterner
An assembler might be useful if I can learn how to use it. Downloaded both. What does "upx" mean? cheers DS On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:40:30 -0600 Rugxulo writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > > > OK What is NASM and what can be used for? > > NASM = Netw

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

2017-12-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > OK What is NASM and what can be used for? NASM = Netwide Assembler, e.g. "mov ax,5150", "salc", "rep movsb", etc. BTW, I already announced it for FreeDOS News, too, so it's on the front page. It didn't really need to be explicitly m

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

2017-12-09 Thread Dale E Sterner
OK What is NASM and what can be used for? cheers DS On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:18:23 +0100 Eric Auer writes: > > Hi :-) > > Forwarding a post from Rugxulo on BTTR about NASM, plus, > in unrelated news: If CHKDSK reports a pile of CHK files > (you would have to check all contents and rename them t

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

2017-12-08 Thread Paolo Vincenzo Olivo
Thanks Eric, going to keep that in mind ;) On 8 December 2017 18:18:23 CET, Eric Auer wrote: Hi :-) Forwarding a post from Rugxulo on BTTR about NASM, plus, in unrelated news: If CHKDSK reports a pile of CHK files (you would have to check all contents and rename them to their old name) then one