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From: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: MASM and LINK errors, Help needed.
Message-ID: <57636@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 90 23:18:15 GMT
References: <476@asacsg.mh.nl>
Reply-To: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <476@asacsg.mh.nl> kr@asacsg.mh.nl (Koos Remigius) writes:
|I need some help with Microsoft assembler.
|I am learnig to write some small simple programs, but I have
|some errors when assembling and linking.
|
|If I enter : MASM TEST.ASM /N /T /Z, TEST ,TEST /B63;
|
|Then I get the message: Illegal line , from MASM.
|
|If I enter: LINK TEST.OBJ /DOSSEG,TEST.EXE,TEST.MAP 
|
|Then I get the message, /DOSSEG , illlegal switch.
|
|I have those commands from a magazine, and I am sure that I am
|doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

It matters which versions of MASM and LINK you are using, but just
as a suggestion, try

    MASM TEST;
    LINK TEST/DOSSEG;

You probably don't need the /DOSSEG.  Make sure you use the version
of LINK that came with MASM.