Date   : Wed, 16 May 1984 16:48:58-MDT
From   : Ron Fowler <RFOWLER@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: help with ACT assembler

My employer has given me the task of extracting disk drivers from
our newly-purchased CompuPro 8-bit system (for use with another application);
since I have to make a lot of changes anyway, we decided to convert the
supplied BIOS source from the ACT assembler format to TDL (I *don't*
like the ACT assembler, and sure couldn't see wasting $175 for it when
we could get 3 copies of Turbo-Pascal for the same price!).  I've finished
most of the code conversion now, except for one statement type I can't
figure out: VFD.  The statements in question (there are three) look like
this:          VFD 4\SRT,4\HUT.   Anybody know what this gobblygook
actually means?  (I suppose I could poke around in my system image and
see exactly what kind of code the statement generated, but there's a good
possibility I'd miss the meaning, since there are about 12 different
executable system images provided with the system).  TIA for any help
provided.                      --Ron Fowler   (RFOWLER @SIMTEL20)