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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie ?
Date: 18 Jan 1997 11:34:09 GMT
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Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) wrote:

> : CDROM.  I was wondering if FBSD comes with an assembler?  If so, what's
> 
> as(1).

To complete this: most of as' documentation is not available in the
man page, but in the info file.  Simply try ``info as''.

And finally a note of a warning: the Unix assembler is very different
from what you know under DOS.  It mostly sticks to the AT&T notation.
There's a topic called ``AT&T Syntax versus Intel Syntax'' in the info
file explaing this.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)