Assembly language help with win16?

Question

assembly language programming for the ibm pc family third edition by william b. jones. i bought this book and i am trying to create the first program in chapter 2. However i install the components which the book ask for, i got the files from a cd that come with the book, but i still getting a error masm is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch files. If you have any knowledge about this book let me know how to install masm in the command prompt other wise give a good hint of how to make this program work.

Answer 1

Perhaps you don't have MASM installed, or you don't have your PATH environment variable set up correctly, and the .exe file for MASM can't be found. If you don't have MASM, you can download MASM from Microsoft's website:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...

Answer 2

masm.exe is quite small and predates horrible stuff like .dlls, so it's complete in itself. Just put it in some folder that's already mentioned in your PATH.  Like c:\windows or similar.

OR you can copy it to the folder where your .asm files are and run it there .

Man I miss 1985. I still have some command line utilities from back then.