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   Ned Latham to rick.c.hodgin   
   Re: Manual for current MASM   
   05 Apr 20 21:35:11   
   
   From: nedlatham@nospicedham.woden.valhalla.oz   
      
   rick.c.hodgin wrote:   
   > Ned Latham wrote:   
   > >   
   > > LOL   
   > >   
   > > Sorry, I just had to laugh. Reminded me of the godawful error messages   
   > > that some systems produce.   
   >   
   > My favorite all-time error message was when an unexpected character was   
   > inserted in source code by accident, such as an accidental K being typed   
   > by mistake:   
   >   
   >     Spurious 'k' found on row 23, column 1   
   >   
   > :-)  I think it was either MASM 6.x, or Microsoft's C Compiler 6.x.  Can't   
   > remember.  I still often think of that error message to this day when a   
   > new compiler reports a different error for the same thing.   
      
   Ah. Will the good ole days ever be gone?   
      
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