Adventurer #07 31 января 1998

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System - Overview of system software: assembler XAS v 7.432

               XAS v 7.432


             (C) by Max Petrov

         improved by Creator / VG



     What can I say about XAS ... Only
phrase from a joke "xas yak xas, Che him to try, in fact, the 
new version very different from those that we had

earlier (yes, we could not contact the author XAS 'a, sorry 
...). Modified (not the better) management in the editor,

added a bunch of new commands, you can make labels in length 
from three to fourteen characters (!). There was a tremendous 
opportunity to work with libraries. Just after the call to the 
library file specifies the names of the necessary routines and 
you all (!). There (version 5.x) repeat-block (which 
incorrectly refers to KSA macros). When assembling, you can 
automatically generate transactions SAVE (With the inclusion of 
all! ASSM! OFF in! ON (Who works in the XAS 'e, will understand 
me)) and RUN. Compared with the first version, the new is much 
steeper and more convenient. But not all so good. So, when 
working with libraries lack of local labels, these macros, as 
well as I do not like the fact that XAS truncate more than 42 
characters :-(. In version 7.1, sometimes there are glitches 
with unwillingness to assemble directive EQU

(Wrote that the label is not found, although in fact it is). In 
XAS 'e 7.4xx is opportunity to swap files with any

extension (lcode "name. Z"). There is a team of conditional 
compilation (ifz 'ifnz). It is possible to swap files

any drive (ltext "B: file1" or lcode
"A: mus. M"). In general, XAS remains the most
convenient assembler, in my opinion ... Although
Here TASM v 4.12 by RST # 7 - this is something of a
extraordinary.