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I just downloaded nasm but I find it irritating that the program has called itself nasmw as I always type in nasm at the cmd. Can I safely rename it to nasm without preventing it from functioning properly?

ahelg wrote: I just downloaded nasm but I find it irritating that the program has called itself nasmw as I always type in nasm at the cmd. Can I safely rename it to nasm without preventing it from functioning properly?

As long as you remember that you did so, if you ever decide to use DOS. In the NASM package, NASM.EXE is designed to run under 16-bit Real Mode DOS (BIOS/DOS API). NASMW.EXE is designed to run under 32-bit Protected Mode (Win32 API). The end result may look the same (command line utility), but both executables use two entirely different methods to achieve the same functionality.

Try it and see. If you did that, you'd (a) learn the answer, and (b) stop wasting our time.

kmcguire wrote: Try it and see. If you did that, you'd (a) learn the answer, and (b) stop wasting our time.

Charming. I think I'll use the ASM Community forums from now on if that`s how newbies are treated.

kmcguire:
I've noticed other posts like this from you. Remember that we all asked questions like this once and these forums don't cater exclusively to those that already know what they're doing. If it did then there wouldn't be any need for the forum as there wouldn't be any questions. If you feel he's wasting our time then don't waste even more of your own by making remarks like that. As is my new policy, I won't respond to any argument on this matter, no flame wars here.

ahelg:
Don't take it personally, sometimes someone will take that attitude. I agree insofar as you probably should have just tried it and see, but I apologise for the way that it was said, that isn't standard form for these forums.

ahelg, this is a question, that has nothing to do with programming (yeah, this subforum is called "General Programming"). Plus it is just a stupid question. :-* (I have never seen that smiley being used before ;D )

*requesting delete/lock. Delete appreciated.*

Yeah, if you're really worried, you can always rename it back if it doesn't work . Might as well, just try it. I created a .bat file called nasm.bat, that does the same thing for me without renaming the nasmw.exe file.

ahelg wrote:

kmcguire wrote: Try it and see. If you did that, you'd (a) learn the answer, and (b) stop wasting our time.

Charming. I think I'll use the ASM Community forums from now on if that`s how newbies are treated.

not newbies... idiots =p