Re: BIOS Assembly

From: Tim Roberts (spamtrap_at_crayne.org)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:48:27 +0000 (UTC)

"cfk" <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:
>
> Its been a while since I did MASM work, but I find myself working on a
>BIOS project.
>
> The first quirk I am trying to understand has to do with a command
>window flickering while asssembling hundreds of asm files. I am assembling
>on an XP laptop using cmd.exe as my command window.
>
> When I invoke the makefile that starts the assembly, it seems that MASM
>& LIB both do a screen clear causing the screen to flicker and all the
>messages written out to the command window to be cleared each time MASM and
>LIB are invoked.

No, neither one of these clears the screen. How are you launching the
makefile? nmake? Can you redirect the stdout using "nmake > error.log"?
You're sure the makefile itself doesn't have any "cls" commands?

>I am constrained to use MASM 6.11and its associated LIB
>version 6.00.8168 by the rules of the BIOS vendor.

LIB is not particularly "associated" with any specific MASM version, but
that's not relevant. 

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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.