Newbie asm question

From: Johann Strauss (jhatapata_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:39:46 -0500

Hello all,

I'm new to the whole assembly thing, having done other languages for many
years I decided I wanted to learn something with a bit more control, so to
speak.

I've been working on assembly for a little while with Motorola
microcontrollers without any real problems, yet I'm having some trouble
compiling on the x86 platform. I've downloaded the win32 port of nasm
(simply because I like it on my linux box) yet on either platform, I get
similar compile errors.

The code I'm trying is:
#make_COM#
ORG 100h

.model small
.stack
.data

Message db "hi$"
mov dx,OFFSET Message
mov ah,9
int 21h
mov ax,4c00h
int 21h
END start

I got the code from a tutorial (specifically Gavin's Guide to 80x86
Assembly) and when compiled, I get the errors:

prog.asm:1: label or instruction expected at start of line
prog.asm:4: parser: instruction expected
prog.asm:4: attempt to define a local label before any non-local label
prog.asm:5: attempt to define a local label before any non-local label
prog.asm:6: attempt to define a local label before any non-local label
prog.asm::10: comma or end of line expected
prog.asm::16 parser: instruction expected.

Needless to say, I'm confused. It won't compile with nasm or masm, but will
with the Emu8086 emulator, which seemed odd to me. Am I dealing with a bad
tutorial?

Any help would be appreciated, and if any of you have suggestions regarding
books, ebooks or tutorials that you feel would be helpful to a beginner
would be appreciated as well

Thanks

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