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Always,

Kocmotex

Quid erat demonstratum!

Again, thank you.

I will presume that the use of a colon to terminate the third line of chapter 1's program was employed as a device to demonstrate to the reader the operation of HLA's error reporting system. 

svegda,

Kocmotex

Dear David,

Your response is fantasmagorical!!!

Most of the relationships were pre-existing under Advanced > Environmental variables, as a result of the prior installation efforts.  The hlatmp was missing, which I added along with creation of a 'c:\temp' folder.  TEMP and TMP are already set for c:\Windows\TEMP & TMP. 

Now all I need to do is go and try it.  However, in reading through the remainder of your response, I thought that I would evaluate the Webster links you provided.  I reviewed the directions from your book to Webster and found that by downloading and installing 'hlasetup.exe', I had installed the HLA version 1.103, released 8/11/2008.  Great!

However, when I tried the five (5) URL links, it was 2020, quid est 5 times 404, not one of them was locatable.  I doubt that Randall Hyde did this, but there is always ucr web masters.

I thought your suggestion about trying HIDE was excellent.  But Mr. Krikorian only provides HIDE Version 1.27.01, quid est a frozen version with HLA 1.99 and hlalib 1.0+ compatibility with AoA. 

Again, permit me to provide my heartfelt thanks for your gracious assistance

Kocmotex

Dear Mr. Zavitz:

   I have a problem.  Permit me to start from the beginning so that you ar fully awave of the chronological order. 

1. Since I already had an earlier version of hla installed, to ensure compatibility between your book and the hla version, I changed the name of the old directory to "c:\hla_pre_8241". 
2. Thereupon I followed the directions in the book and went to http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/HLA/dnld.html .
3. Although I understand that the frozen version of HLA is v1.99 and is retained for those wishing to use the AOA text, it really wasn't that clear that I should install HLA v1.103.  Howsoever, I downloaded "HLA Installation Program (HLA v1.103, released 8/11/1008), hlasetup.exe" and successfully installed said version. 
4. I proceeded to create the "projects folder" et al. 
5. I use XP Pro with Microsoft Office (ver '97), so I have the Console Window button available on a sidebar, permitting a one-click activation of the DOS emulator.  With this flexibility, I write short batch files to adjust the path and change the active directory.  In this case, "zav.bat" sets the path to hla (viz. C:\hla) and changes the active directory to "C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message". 
6. Here are the results: 

C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message>path
PATH=C:\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\mi
ktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\hla;C:\hla\
include;C:\hla\hlalib;

C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message>dir
Volume in drive C is SQ003521
Volume Serial Number is B4BD-A73C

Directory of C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message

08/28/2008  10:54 AM    <DIR>          .
08/28/2008  10:54 AM    <DIR>          ..
08/28/2008  02:13 AM               142 print_message.hla
               1 File(s)            142 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   2,476,793,856 bytes free

C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message>hla print_message.hla

C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message>Echo off
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\hla\projects\chapt01_print_message>c:\hla\hla print_message.hla
'hlaparse' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Your comments and observations would be greatly appreciated.

Kocmotex@frys.com