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Started 3 years ago by DaveCanterbury
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DaveCanterbury
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Hi

I am trying to support some (very) old legacy code, written in Z80 assembler. I have the Huntsville macro assembler, and linker, and use the Borland 7 make utility. If I use the command line console (Win XP prof) I can enter the relevant commands to make the project or assemble a file, and the make or assembly progress and errors are echoed to the console window.

Inside PN (V2.0.9.921-devel) the correct actions take place, but the only thing that appears in the output window is the command line (with the program invocation in quotes) the process exit code, and the time taken. The exit code shown does correctly reflect the error code returned by the tools.

If I turn output capture off,a command prompt window is briefly created and removed, I cannot see if there is any output to this window.

This editor seem great and I am desperate to move into a windows environment for this, as at present I am still having to use Borland TP7 as the project editor! Any thoughts gratefully received!

Regards

Posted 3 years ago #
NickDMax
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wrapping the command in a batch file and adding a "pause" should allow you to hold the window open for a bit.

This really would be a nice feature: a check box for "hold window open" for output of tools.

But the output for tools seems to work with my tools (several compilers and assemblers) -- so are you sure the programs are running properly? The right program running etc?

Posted 3 years ago #
DaveCanterbury
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I had forgotten all about pause!

Wrapping it in a batch file shows that the command is being executed properly.
Tried turning output capture back on..... and that is now working!
Remove pause, and the output capture is still working, so I am off and running!

I vaguely remember (from many years ago) that you used to have to do something about invoking the command interpreter when shelling out to DOS from within a pascal program.
Is this similar, and if so can anyone remember how to do it?

The DOS program "FC" (file compare) works fine without wrapping it in a batch file.

Many thanks, much appreciated.

I have noticed that several members have asked for some column editing facilities. While working on assembler, particularly large data tables, this would be great. The last time I had this was in "LEX" under PDP11's one or two years ago............ ;)

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