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A second reply to woho: I have taken a fresh approach to your suggestion. First, I downloaded TextPad to a backup computer I have here, and followed your proposal with respect to the Configuration procedure. In the course of doing this, I noticed for the first time a note in the TextPad instructions ...

Thanks so much for the May 7 reply to my posts, only looked at today, a week after its posting; I had basically given up, after the previous (unfriendly) reply, not expecting any more. Your proposal makes a lot of sense, and I should have thought of doing something like this earlier. Unfortunately ...

Hello, everyone, I believe I owe it to anyone who might have been following this thread to post a response to a recent comment. I am not a professional programmer; I am an electrical engineer, retired twenty years ago. About five years ago I started to learn assembly language, with the aid of ...

In response to Mudguard: I have added the various Tool commands, following the instructions in "Using TextPad." : Build 16-bit MASM Debug 16-bit MASM Run MASM The various programs I have written in the last five years have always run perfectly, so I have to assume that the "Run MASM" tool is ...

While developing new programs, I include code to show various registers on the screen; for instance, with a four-word numerical array I will include a short routine to load BX with the four array elements and then display the four BX values sequentially on the screen followed by a carriage return ...

Hello, all,

My problem is no more. After many years of successful use of the features available in TextPad, I had entirely forgotten that my files are located in a directory of my own choosing, reporting directly to the root directory.

So all is well, and I'm a little embarrassed...

Michael

I have been using TextPad for about five years. This morning, I am suddenly unable to access any of the forty or fifty files I have worked on. Fortunately, all my files are saved elsewhere in my computer, so I can copy one of them into the open window. However, I am unable to do a Save As ...

Brief update, and some answers to recent questions: Having (laboriously) deleted everything on the MASM615 directory, as recommended, I then created it again and copied to it everything from my original MASM615. Now the normal operation has been restored. Fortunately, as I rather anticipated, the ...

Thank you - both of you - for being patient with me. My version of TextPad is TextPad 4.5.0, and it came on a CD with MASM versions 6.11 and "6.15 patch", accompanying the fourth edition of an assembly language textbook prepared by Kip Irvine. I understand that TextPad and MASM have nothing to do ...

Thanks for the advice, which I have followed carefully, deleting TextPad itself, plus the two directories mentioned previously, plus the directory in which all my programs had been placed. Unfortunately, downloading the latest version as you suggested did not provide a MASM615 directory for me. So ...

I am trying to install TextPad on a new laptop. My existing computer has directories C:\MASM615 and C:\MASM611. It has been years since I loaded TextPad into this computer, and I don't remember how the MASM611 directory got there, but I copied it into the new computer, since the installation from my ...

Do I have to uninstall TextPad 4.5 before trying to install TextPad 5?

And, will my licence - purchased 3-4 years ago - still cover me with the updated software?

Thanks,

Michael

Bob: I appreciate your comment. I should have written "up to but not including....." !! Unfortunately, nobody has addressed my original question, referenced in the final paragraph of my Feb. 26 post (making a procedures library, and linking it to the main program.) Nicholas: Yes, of course my code ...

Hello, Nicholas, Once again, I thank you for your assistance. To answer your last comment, I would certainly like to see your code for prime number generation. However, it is most unlikely that I could contribute anything really useful in this area; what I have at the moment shows primes up to 2**16 ...

Hello, Nicholas, Thank you very much for your detailed and helpful response to my request for advice. Clearly, I should have posted a clearer description of my current difficulty, since your reply went far beyond my needs. I will attempt to do this here; I’m a retired instrumentation engineer, pre ...