I find a bug in 'masm32.hlp'!

[UtillMasm]

C:\masm32\Help\masm32.hlp

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Syntax:

     .ERR [message]

Description:

     Generates an A2052 error message when assembled. Generally, this
     directive occurs in a conditional-assembly block and is used to indicate
     some error condition discovered at assembly time. This directive can
     be useful for verifying that the program assembled correctly and that
     user-defined bounds were not exceeded.

     If <message> is given, it will be displayed with the standard assembler
     error messages. The <message> parameter is any text item
                                    -o-
It should be:

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Syntax:

     .ERR [message]

Description:

     Generates an A2052 error message when assembled. Generally, this
     directive occurs in a conditional-assembly block and is used to indicate
     some error condition discovered at assembly time. This directive can
     be useful for verifying that the program assembled correctly and that
     user-defined bounds were not exceeded.

     If <message> is given, it will be displayed with the standard assembler
     error messages. The <message> parameter is any text item.
                                    -o-
:wink

[hutch--]

 :bg

You will have to blame whatever the problem was with Microsoft, they wrote it. hat technical data was converted directly from the much older ALANG.HLP, a DOS help format for the very old PWB that came with MASM 6.11.

[jj2007]

Excuse my ignorance, but the two versions you present differ only insofar as the second one has a dot after "text item". Can you explain, please?

[dedndave]

oh my foo !!!!
he is a period guy   :red

[hutch--]

JJ,

Disassemble a DOS era Microsoft help file and you will discover all of the joys of converting it to Winhelp and later to CHM.