NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/8bit/5757

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Kermit-65 source code
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Date: Fri,  1 Jan 93 19:17:49 PST
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Winston Smith writes:

>To All 6502 Programmers Out There,
>
>     I have been examining the KERMIT-65 source code files that I FTP-ed
>from the Atari Archive with a "get".  I don't own a MAC-65 6502 Assembler
>cartridge, and some of the symbols used seem a bit strange.  For example,
>what is the meaning of the pseudo-op ".SBTTL" ?  Another interesting
>expression is "<byte>!<byte>" (...is that supposed to be a Logical NOT of
>two bytes?).  Finally, in the KERMIT-65 "make" file, the "-v" flag is set.
>Is there a version of the UNIX "as6502" cross-assembler utility that even
>--SUPPORTS-- a "v" flag ?  What assembler was used to generate object code
>from these sources, does anyone know ?  Thank you.

   .SBTTL means "Subtitle," and just makes an informative title appear
at the (usually) second line of each page in the assembly listing created
as a result of assembling the code.

   <byte>!<byte> usually means "bitwise OR" of two bytes, i.e. "a quan-
tity in which all bits are set which were set in EITHER of the two original
bytes."  Example: 2!4 = 6

   I don't know about the -v flag or what assembler was used to build
Kermit-65.  John Dunning, who last I heard was at least still marginally
associated with this newsgroup in the capacity of manager of new 8-bit
contributions to the Atari Archive, did the port of Kermit-65 from the
Commodore 64, producing the KERMIT.EXE that is in common use today.  I'd
say John would be the guy to ask about this.  John, are you still out there?
(If you're still unable to post, e-mail me and I'll relay to the newsgroup,
John...)

  Chris Chiesa
     [e-mail]