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A.1. Introduction
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   The Netwide Disassembler is a small companion program to the Netwide
Assembler, NASM. It seemed a shame to have an x86 assembler, complete
with a full instruction table, and not make as much use of it as
possible, so here's a disassembler which shares the instruction table
(and some other bits of code) with NASM.

   The Netwide Disassembler does nothing except to produce
disassemblies of _binary_ source files. NDISASM does not have any
understanding of object file formats, like `objdump', and it will not
understand `DOS .EXE' files like `debug' will. It just disassembles.