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Subject: Re: Teaching Assembler on VAX (BSD 4.3)
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 08:05:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 08:05:55 1987
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Summary: m4 should work fine for macros.

In article <588@maccs.UUCP>, ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff) writes:
> Two years ago I ran our assembler programming course under BSD4.2 and vowed
> never to do it again.
> 
> There is NO macro assembler available for the VAX (unlike the PDP-11).  I 
> scoured the entire planet via USENET, COMPUSERVE, and Telecom -- to no
> avail.  

Now that is a real puzzler.  Did you try:  man -k macro
which should have turned up m4.  Granted it isn't as fancy as SAIL
macros, but surely it is good enough for people playing with assembler code.

> The conclusion was -- for a user-friendly assembler I would have to go VMS!

Sigh.  I think I would write sed scripts before I went to that extreme.
Besides, C was always the default user-friendly assembler on unix machines.

------------------ BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis!webber)