From: justliketomsthumbsblues@gmail.com   
      
   I was hoping someone might be kind enough to take the time to explain my   
   problem with orca/m and macgen to me.  I’ve always used merlin for assembly;   
   I purchased the orca languages years ago but never used orca/m really; i was   
   more interested in orca/c    
   for toolbox programming, never got very far.   
      
   Recently using merlin I was wishing I could step through the code so thought I   
   would try orca/m and gsbug. I have orca/m 2.1.0 installed and started going   
   through the orca/m manual not realizing it was written for v2.0 and so the   
   hello.asm example in the    
   manual produces no output under v2.1.0. I took me a while to figure that out.   
   So being curious I installed v2.0 and v2.0.4 on a hd partition and v2.0 works   
   as the manual states. v2.0.4 however does not.   
      
   So, the crux of it is, v2.0.4 (shell v2.0.3, macgen v2.0.2), macgen does not   
   accept the input:   
      
   “macgen hello.asm hello.macros 13:orcainclude:m=“  but prompts for a   
   filename. Entering “13:orcainclude:m=“ results in “:HD6:OR   
   A.2.0.4:LIBRARIES:orcainclude:m= could not be opened”. If I then enter   
   “13:orcainclude:m16.orca” macgen    
   processes that file, prompts for an outfile, then lists a bunch of unfound   
   macros and prompts for a macro file name. If I then enter “13:   
   rcainclude:m=“ macgen is very happy with that and completes and writes out   
   hello.macros. Still won’t produce    
   output if using the supplied sample hello.asm as it does not contain: “jsl   
   SystemEnvironmentInit, jsl SysIOStartup or jsl SysIOShutdown” even though   
   included release notes state they are minimum requirements for text IO.   
      
   Why does macgen 2.0.2  not accept the second two parameters in “macgen   
   hello.asm hello.macros 13:orcainclude:m=“ and when it the prompts for a file   
   name doesnt accept the wildcard = but does accept the wildcard after the   
   second prompt.   
      
   It all doesn’t really matter, I’ll be trying to use v2.1.0 anyway but it   
   bothers me it doesn’t work and I can’t figure out why.   
      
   Sorry to be so long winded. as an aside; am I mmissing documentation or was   
   the 524 page manual I have and the release notes all that was ever released?   
      
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