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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Cross compiling kermit for Messy-dos
Keywords: Cross Compiling, Assembly Language, Xenix
Message-ID: <3967@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 2 May 90 16:31:57 GMT
Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue, WA
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I have been trying to compile Kermit-ms on my Xenix system, but ran into
a stone wall since it is mostly written for the MS-DOS Macro Assembler.

The documentation on cc for Xenix indicates that I should be able to
assemble files with .s suffixes to create .o object files, but this
doesn't work.  The compiler generates '/bin/as -o tmp.o tmp.s' then says
'cannot open input file: tmp.o'.

When I try the Xenix Macro Assembler, the computer gets severe heartburn
and doesn't get anywhere useful.

Is there a way to assemble this code on a Xenix system without having
to buy the MS-DOS MASM?
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