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- SUBJECT : USING SLR'S Z80ASM AND SLRNK.COM ASSEMBLER/LINKER WITH PBBS
-
- FROM : IRV HOFF W6FFC
-
- DATE : 7 SEPT 86
-
-
-
- Most of the PBBS modules commence with:
-
-
- .Z80
- ASEG
- ORG 0100H
-
-
- Null out or remove all three lines. Rename the module so it has
- a .Z80 extent (unless your Z80ASM assembler has been installed to expect
- a .MAC extent.) Then assemble (when ready):
-
- B>Z80ASM PBBS/M ; <== /M for a Microsoft-type .REL file
-
- when finished assembling (under two minutes even on a modest-speed floppy
- system), then ready for linking. In this case:
-
- B>SLRNK /P:100,PBBS,PBBSUBS,PBBS/N/E
-
- will generate a PBBS.COM file from the PBBS.REL file you made and the
- PBBSUBS.REL utility section of PBBS. This will take around 22 seconds.
- (When using M80 it took around 6-1/2 minutes to assemble and L80 took
- around 1:40 to link with the same floppy system.)
-
- (The /P:100 tells it to establish a
- base address of 0100H when linking.
- You could have kept the ORG 0100H
- address in the original module, and
- then used /P:0 instead of /P:100.)
-
- Then do the other four sections: PBYE, PBBSMNT, PNOTE1 and
- PCHAT11 in a similar manner. You can fix the APBBS.SUB submit file in
- an appropriate manner if you want to automate the whole procedure. (I
- don't use submit files myself, the EX14 and EX15 files always bomb the
- system here when they are finished and are supposed to return to the
- operating system.)
-
- - Irv
-
-
- (Note: The PBBS.MAC v3.0 had one line which causes the Z80ASM
- assembler to barf, it looked like this:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- as originally distributed
-
- SCNASK:
- CALL PRINT
- CR,'Message number to begin scan (1-',0
- |
- \no 'DB' here, Microsoft's M80 will accept this line
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- corrected
- SCNASK:
- CALL PRINT
- DB CR,'Message number to begin scan (1-',0 ; <== 'DB' added
- |
- \'DB' has been added, SLR's Z80ASM is now happy (so is M80).
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Without that 'DB' ahead of the ASCII string, the SLR assembler thought
- you were redefining the value of 'CR' and would put out about 30-40
- errors saying subsequent 'CR' values were "out of range".
-