On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > For the DOS world, real programmers have written a "complete" *.com > program using only echo.
Only as an exercise. It was satisfying to prove to myself that I could do it, but pretty useless. Normally I used DEBUG.EXE to build my code - it has a mini-assembler in it. Incidentally, I used debug as a full assembler, with a bit of a REXX harness around it - used that to write OS/2 code in pure assembly, without the bother of, yaknow, getting an actual assembler. Suddenly things got WAY easier once I got hold of nasm... ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
