ECHO Directive (Display Message on Standard Output Device)

The ECHO directive displays progress through a long assembly or displays the value of conditional assembly parameters.

Syntax

ECHO Text

Remarks

The assembler lists the Text entry on the standard output device during assembly when the assembler encounters the ECHO directive.

ECHO is not available under MASM 5.10 emulation; you must use %OUT, which is the obsolete spelling for the ECHO directive.

Example

Example 1:

IF IBM
   ECHO IBM VERSION
   ENDIF

IF2
   ECHO STARTING SECOND PASS
   .
   .
   .
   ENDIF

Example 2:

INNER   MACRO    TEXT,VAL
        ECHO     TEXT VAL
        ENDM
        .
        .
        .
HERE    =        $ - CSEG
        INNER    <CURRENT LOCATION>,%HERE

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