Hi all

I have been reading the lastest message posts regarding free assemblers and it appears that the Metalink assembler is the most popular.

I have downloaded the version from the metalink site, but the way it handles errors is pityful. That is, it stores them in the list file (.LST). Even if you use the $NOPRINT and $NOSYMBOLS directive, the erros print to the screen, but include files are deemed to be part of the original source. I.E. the error line counter doesn't start from zero for each include, for an error in line 10 of source file source.inc, my be displayed as an error in line 546 by the assembler.

My question is this (finally!)... For those that develop with ASM51, how do you get around these error messages with include files? I want to use another assembler other than the one I use at the moment (TASM) as it has problems with line lengths etc, but need error code displayed to the screen correctly.