Re: MASM ASSUME directives...

Alex Buell <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What were the earliest versions of MASM to allow the following
directives as follows:

ASSUME CS:FLAT, DS:FLAT, ES:FLAT..

MASM 5.10 doesn't appear to like above at all. So, which versions does?

There was a "custom" version of MASM 5.10 that shipped with the Windows 386
and Windows 3.x DDKs specifically for assembling VxDs. It understood this.
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Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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