Ron:

The 'unknown symbol PORTA' and 'illegal mnumonic/operand' messages are all
indications that the assembler does not 'know' the default symbols for this
device or even WHAT device (12bit/14bit?, memory size?..) to target.  This
is due to a missing header file.

  - Set your project tool for 'CVASM' (This will use CVASM 6.0).
  - Ensure that you have a '   include xxxx.inc' line in your source file
BEFORE ANY OTHER EXECUTABLE LINE. THis replaces the old 'DEVICE' directive.
There is a README in your TDE 4.2 install directory that discusses the
slight changes required  to use CVASM 6.0
  - The INCLUDE directive can not be in the first column (or it will be
considered to be a LABEL).
  - The included file name can include an absolute or a relative path to
the file.

This should BUILD and RUN OK.....let us know.

Thanks for helping us shake out the BETA.....please be sure to forward your
observations to us so that we can incorporate them into TDE 4.2 before
final release.

Jerry


At 11:52 PM 7/21/01, you wrote:
>Hello All.  I am using TDE 4.2 beta 2 on a project that runs perfectly in
>TDE 4.1.  After having the installation of beta 2 fail in win Me, but work
>on Win2k, i used the install from the win 2k machine and copied the TDEv2b2
>directory over to the win Me machine (the one hooked up to the clearview
>emu).
>
>When I ran the project, it all loaded well enough but wen it tried to build
>it, I got:
>
>ERROR FILENAME.SRC line number : use of unknown symbol PORTA
>
>and i also got illegal mnemonic/operand combination
>Now I went so far as to rename the enitre fresh install of TDEv2b2 to TDE
>and literally dumped the enitre directory onto the original Win ME machine's
>TDE directory, so everything was replaced except my project files.
>
>No matter, the same errors apply.
>
>If I select CVASM16 or SPASM or CVASM_OLD it's the same thing.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>One previosu time I was trying a few random things, and got the build to
>work and execute the program but only after saying:  Can't resolve
>symbols.tde, please check project settings.
>
>What to do??? Man I want those v4.2b2 tools!
>
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