Gentlemen,

Is there anybody who uses the old INTEL MCS51 Development Environment (PL/M51 compiler , ASM51 assembler, RL51 linker ... ) on a PC running WindowsXP Professional SP2 ?
I found a Tech Note in the web site of INTEL at http://www.intel.com/design/mc...e/3073.htm.
I’m using these scripting techniques for so many years. They worked successfully on different PCs running DOS 3.x, Win95, Win98 and Win NT4.0. The only thing I added is a small utility named DOStoPLM which replaces the CR,LF control character sequence (0D, 0A hex) by simply a CR character (0D hex).

But after changing to Windows XP Professional all my batch files to compile, assemble and link my programs do not work. The invocation of the PL/M51 works fine. But when calling the RL51 linker, the process stops with error messages. Never the less the RL51 can be invoked from the command line of the Command Prompt Window (German: Eingabeaufforderung).

If you give me an E-Mail address, I would send the files which show the malfunction.

Regards
Reinhard Vogg

PS:
I assume this isn't an error within the RL51 linker.
I guess this is again an "embedded feature" of Windows XP.
The guys of Microsoft shall be shot to the back side of the moon.