Hello, Newbie question

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Hello, I am completely new to ASM and rather a novice at programming in general, I do know some about c++ and I wanted to expand my knowledge to whats going on below the upperlevel language, I downloaded and installed your latest version of MASM on a vista laptop, all seemed to go OK.

Anyway I went to compile and run the demo programs, they compile fine but at runtime it looks allot like a console program in c++ where the programmer forgot to ask for user input before terminating the program, IE- the console window flashes for a second and then disappears.

Its probably something stupid that I did or a bug involving vista, any ideas to solve this issue would be great - as a side note, can anyone point me to some decent tutorials on MASM?

[Tight_Coder_Ex]

It has more to do with the way 95/98/ME/XP/Vista treats DOS applications.

There are two ways you can solve this

1: Wait for keyboard input at end of program or;
2: Open MSDOS window first and then launch application from there as if you were on a DOS computer

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Just open a console first, most console apps are designed NOT to stop so that they can be used sequentially in things like batch files where yopu don't want a prompt to stop it.

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Hey thanks for the help, when launched from the console window it works, I really appreciate it.