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From: rcollins@gumby.Altos.COM (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: byte vs word movs (and TASM BUGS)
Message-ID: <4946@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 24 Jun 91 17:19:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.031758.11264@cs.mcgill.ca> <ysyw42w164w@bluemoon.uucp>
Reply-To: rcollins@altos.COM (Robert Collins)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <ysyw42w164w@bluemoon.uucp> andy@bluemoon.uucp (Andy Vaught) writes:
>The above is perfectly legal. The problem is convincing MASM of its 
>legality. You might need an "OFFSET" keyword before "SECTOR". I don't 
>know, I use Turbo Assembler, which has much more rational syntax. 
>

And TASM has an impossible "bug-set" when dealing with 32-bit (USE32) 
programming.  Sorry, even though MASM has its limitations, unfortunately
TASM has even more...which make it unusable in my line of work.