Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: TASM can't subtract ... Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 13:09:12 GMT References: <1991Mar1.014835.7651@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 21 mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) writes: >Hi! >I am trying to assemble Fontedit.asm, a program published in PC-Magazine >vol 7 no. 15 using Turbo Assembler 1.0 (Yup, its 1.0 alright). In the program, >there's a couple of lines that go: >LOADER LABEL BYTE >LOADER_OFFSET EQU 100H - LOADER >It bugs me no end that TASM can't subtract two numbers which are completely >and unambiguously defined, and I paid a cool $259 (for the professional C) >package for this. :-( Well, see, there's this principle that my SO & I refer to as "dP/dQ". The principle is that the derivative of price with respect to quality is (almost always) negative. Often stated as "the more you pay, the less you get". Get A86 from Isaacson Software...