ASSIST (Assembler  System  for  Student Instruction and Systems 
Teaching) is an IBM System/370-compatible assembler/interpreter 
developed in the 1970s at Penn State University.  Originally,
ASSIST was available only to universities and was implemented
at over one hundred of them.  In 1998, Penn State declared that
ASSIST was no longer copyrighted and that the program was freely
available.

Neither Penn State University nor Northern Illinois University
can or will provide support for ASSIST.  You are welcome to use
it, but with the understanding that any problems you encounter 
are yours to fix.

                                               M. Stack, NIU
                                               March 1998
The files normally here are:

ASSIST.ZIP       Penn State ASSIST Version 4.0/A2 of Dec 1975.
                 This is all of the original distribution tape
                 files (size = 1.33M)

ASSIST.TAPE/     A directory containing all of the ASSIST files
                 which are ZIPped into the above.

ASDISTRB.TXT     The Penn State ASSIST distribution memo

ASUSERGD.HTML    The ASSIST User Guide in HTML format
ASREPLGD.HTML    The ASSIST Assembler Replacement Guide in HTML               

ASSIST.JCL       A job to assemble and link ASSIST as implemented
                 at Northern Illinois University

ASSIST.PROC      The ASSIST JCL procedure currently in use
                 at Northern Illinois University

ASSIST.XMIT      The above ASSIST program in its program library 
                 in TSO/E Transmit (IDTF) format.  Upload this file
                 to MVS as (DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=3120) in
                 binary, then RECEIVE INDS(ASSIST.XMIT) in TSO.

XMACROS.ZIP      The XMACRO and XMODULE redistribution. These are
                 the files as used at NIU and may or may not work
                 elsewhere. Source is included.

ASSISTI.ZIP      ASSIST/I, the PC version of ASSIST

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 asreplgd.html           10-Mar-2002 15:29   28K  
 assist.jcl              10-Mar-2002 19:33   11K  
 assist.proc             10-Mar-2002 15:29  728   
 assist.xmit             10-Mar-2002 19:34   74K  
 assist.zip              10-Mar-2002 15:30  1.3M  
 assisti.zip             10-Mar-2002 15:30   75K  
 asusergd.html           10-Mar-2002 15:30  146K  
 xmacros.zip             10-Mar-2002 15:30  113K