

	Norton Guide to Turbo Assembler version 4.0 (Ideal mode)
	

	Some months ago, I upgraded to Borland's Turbo Assembler v4.0
	(dated Dec 14, 1993). This guide was made to ease the switch
	from MASM to Ideal mode syntax. It's not that the TASM manual is
	bad, in fact it is very good, chapters 4 (OOP) and 13 (advanced
	coding instructions) excepted, but a Norton guide is more handy.
	Portions of the manual have been included with no or slight
	changes.

	The guide covers the assembler tasm.exe, and its Ideal mode
	syntax only (with some Ideal/MASM mode differences pointed out),
	i.e. *no* information on the Intel CPU instruction set or the
	(interrupt) services provided by BIOS and the operating system.
	In the lists of directives and pre-defined equates, you'll find
	numbers like "T300", this indicates the version of TASM in which
	the keyword was introduced (blank = version 1.0).

	A few entries have a "!?" in them because of no or insufficient
	documentation or because I can't figure out just how to make TASM
	do the logical thing...

	Anyway, I only use Ideal mode now.



	February, 1995

	Morten Elling
	Ellemarksvej 12
	DK-8000  Aarhus C
	Denmark

        
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        June 1995: Clarified a few points on procedure prolog-epilog
                   code and segmentation (ARG/RETURNS, DOSSEG, SEGMENT);
                   added some examples.   /Me

