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- 31-May-82 18:33:06
- Fm: Jim Byram
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- Alan Bomberger originally wrote SPELL in zilog mnemonics and my guess is that
- it was assembled by M80. If you delete all pseudoops in the beginning and add
- the pseudoop .z80, the program should assemble with M80. The current pseudoops
- are for PASM-II which I used to assemble it. (This is an advertisement. PASM
- will assemble just about anything for the 8080/Z80.) As to the question of a
- lex. I just typed in the program from Dr. Dobbs' and added the file output,
- etc. Then I ran the program against everything that I had written in the last
- year (in small increments) and sorted and checked each word to eliminate errors
- and duplication. Presto! I now have a base dictionary of some 7,500 words.
- The master lex is named MASTER.LEX. Any unknown words are collected in
- SPELL.LEX and sorted and checked for spelling. Periodically, I add the new
- words to the MASTER.LEX. Without compression, the lex takes 10k per 1000
- words. Alan Bomberger will sell you a 30,000 word lex for $30. See Dr. Dobbs.
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- Here's how to assemble SPELL-11.ASM with M80 (which I don't normally use. 1)
- Change name from SPELL-11.ASM to SPELL.MAC. 2) Delete pseudo-ops at beginning
- of file (.TITLE to .PLINK) up to ASEG. Add before ASEG the pseudo-op .Z80.
- Thus the first two lines of the file should be .Z80 and ASEG. 3) Assemble --
- M80 =SPELL 4) Link -- L80 SPELL,SPELL/N/E 5) You now have SPELL.COM. Try it.
- It works!!! 6) Read the notes in the beginning of the file and Alan Bomberger's
- article in the April 82 Dr. Dobbs to see how to use it. Any further
- questions???
- Jim Byram
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