>From uga.cc.uga.edu!MITVMA.MIT.EDU!owner-pic Tue Jan 10 09:55:53 1995 remote fro m comgate Received: from daisy.ee.und.ac.za by comgate.ee.uct.ac.za with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0rRbQe-00056dC; Tue, 10 Jan 95 09:55 EET Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by daisy.ee.und.ac.za with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #14) id m0rRbam-0007VVC; Tue, 10 Jan 95 10:06 GMT+0200 Message-Id: Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8812; Tue, 10 Jan 95 03:05:09 EST Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5202; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 03:04:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:06:06 +0300 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Lance Walley Subject: Re: Parallax Assembler X-To: pic microcontroller discussion list To: Multiple recipients of list PIC Sender: Super User Bill Collins wrote: > >I got the PIC_TOOLS.ZIP file from the Parallax FTP site. It contains >PASM and Microchip's MPASM, but only has the instruction manual for >MPASM. Is the manual for PASM available, or is that the incentive to >buy the package rather than FTP it? > >Also, I looked at the FTP site again today, and couldn't find any of the >tools. Did I take a wrong turn, or have they removed the PASM and BASIC >stamp tools? There are three files that should help you with our assemblers: INST.TXT, INSTX.TXT, and PICPGM.PDF. The first two files are text files that briefly explain the directives and instructions accepted by the assemblers. The third file is a PDF (Acrobat) version of the following chapters in our printed manual: Assembler, Simulator, Programmer, and Instructions (Parallax and Microchip). If you can use the Windows or Mac PDF reader (which takes forever to download from our ftp site), then the PDF file is your best bet. It's the same file provided with our "Hobbyist Pack" programmer, and gives you a near-printed-quality manual (if you use a laser printer). To find the PDF files, look in the Acrobat directory at our ftp site. I'm a little confused by your second paragraph. In the first paragraph, you said that you got PASM and MPASM. In the second paragraph, you said that you couldn't find the tools, such as PASM.EXE or STAMP.EXE. Both are part of respective ZIP files, such as PIC_TOOLS.ZIP and STAMP.ZIP. Soon, I think we will make the most important files available separately. For now, though, they are only available in the larger ZIP files. We certainly don't want to make the tools unavailable. Please let us know if you still have problems getting them. ------------------------ Lance Walley --------------------------- Parallax, Inc.