Roland, That smiley you put after *ahem* 'small assembler' should be in BOLD.
When I was a sysprog I used the ShowMVS assemble as my HLASM IVP - I figured if HLASM can assemble ShowMVS then everything else should be a breeze. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html