Re: contiki and an assembler

[Alistair J Ross <mail@ataliross.co.uk>]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:55:04 +0000, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> 
> BTW, you _do_ have the Merlin Pro manual, don't you?

Nope. I just downloaded Merlin from some web site (probly asimov)
I am not afraid of weird editors, I've used edlin and use Vi/Vim
daily. A few operating commands should be sufficient to get me
editing in merlin, and i prefer to use it in merlin anyways, it 
means i dont have to jump between ProDos and Merlin all the time
to write source.

Regards,

Alistair Ross

> Alistair J Ross replied:
> 
>>> With Merlin, you load a program's source, edit it, save the source,
>>> assemble it, save ithe object code, and then run it.  Seems pretty
>>> natural to me.
>>> 
>>> Of course, I've done it a few hundred times...  ;-)
>>
>>Merlin attempts to load the source i made in teach in system 6.
>>when i catalog in dos or merlin, i can see the file i created so i 
>>know that it's there.
>>
>>When I go to load it, it says it can't find it.
>>
>>So from that point. I'm stuck.
>>
>>I also can't make any sense out of the editor, it looks like an
>>old sort of edlin type editor.
> 
> Merlin Pro can import text source files, but you should
> append ".S" to the file name so that when you type the
> filename (the part before the .S) it will find it.  This is the
> standard Merlin naming convention.
> 
> After you load a text file created outside Merlin's editor,
> you will need to use the FIX command in the editor.  This
> will put the program in Merlin's standard source format,
> which conserves memory space.
> 
> You will find it easier to use Merlin if you SAVE your
> source files from within Merlin, and use Merlin's edtor.
> The editor is a simple line editor, but it has many
> quite convenient features for working on assembly
> source.
> 
> I realize that people tend to become fond of particular
> editors, and resist learning new ones, but it's not much
> of a problem, and it works fine.
> 
> You will quickly learn shortcuts that simplify the use
> of the editor, like "." to re-list starting with the first
> line of the last listed range, and "/" to continue listing
> from the last line listed.  You will also find it useful that
> the space bar stops a listing and "steps" a listing forward
> by one line for each repeated space.
> 
> If, after using it for an hour or two, you still chafe at it,
> then you can return to using a screen editor, choosing
> an upper case source name ending in ".S", and using
> FIX before assembling.
> 
> Frankly, I find that using sequence numbers to edit
> a source file working from a marked-up listing, to be
> quite straightforward.
> 
> BTW, you _do_ have the Merlin Pro manual, don't you?
> 
> -michael
> 
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