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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80
Subject: Have Tandy's Videotex 2000 and MS-Assembler been updated?
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 14:21:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 14:21:53 1985
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I have the initial release versions of Tandy's MS-Assembler and
Videotex 2000, both of which are real bow-wows.

The assembler doesn't assemble 80186 opcodes (it doesn't recognize
PUSHA, for example), and the linker has to be thrown out and replaced
with the one on the MS-DOS 2.11 distribution disk.

Videotex 2000 is a joke.  My copy refuses to upload copies at 1200
baud, and goes into an infinite loop if the file doesn't end with a
control-Z, sending the file over and over until you reset the system.
Since MS-DOS text files aren't required to end with a control-Z, this
is a serious bug. (The program should simply have gotten the file
length from DOS and sent that many bytes.)  There also are a few
screen glitches if you use DOS 2.11 and DOS 2.11's ANSI.SYS.

Are there newer versions of these programs? Patches? Suggestions?
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		Robert Plamondon
		{turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert