assembly - Assembler can't locate existing files

Question

My TASM is mounted to the folder where my my TASM, TLINK, and files are. Specifically it is at C:/TASM/BIN. I have no problems when running a single .asm file but when I include an another file so that my code would look modular, there comes this problem.

I have included 6 files as of now which includes printMzpos1.kt. (File extension doesn't matter in assembly file inclusion.) The name of my main file is c.asm. The image shows that printMzpos1.kt is in the folder where my TASM is mounted:

Here is the snapshot of my code. I included printMzpos1.kt after main endp and before end main. printMzpos1.kt contains a procedure that prints boxes.

.model small
.386
.stack 64

.data
colorW      db  0Fh
xPos        dw  ?
currmode    db  ?
horLineLen  dw  120
verLineLen  dw  70

include macro.kt

.code

;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
MAIN proc far
;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

mov ax, @data
mov ds, ax
mov es, ax

setVidMode  
cls

call printMzPos1
;call move3Boxes

retVidMode  
mov ax, 4c00h
int 21h

MAIN endp

include printMzPos1.kt
include printMzPos2.kt
include printMzPos3.kt
include printMzPos4.kt
include drawRect.kt
include move3Boxes.kt

end MAIN

Though I think I included it properly, I still get this:

**Fatal** c.ASM(39) Can't locate file: printMzPos1.kt

What went wrong?

Answer 1

The name printMzPos1.kt is too long. DOSBox and TASM accept only 8.3-names. Type in DIR in DOSBox (or DIR /X in Windows) and you see something like PRINTM~1.KT. This is the 8.3-name of printMzPos1.kt and this you must use. You see probably several PRINTM~X.KT files. So you have to search which of these names correlates to which of your names. The '~X' is only a sequential number created by the operating system for uniqueness.

You can also just rename the files to shorter names so that they fit in the 8.3-limit.