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[smal8]: http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/C/Assembler.php
[smal32]: http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cross/smal32/


## <a id="palbart"></a>palbart

| **Introduced** | 1996
| **Manual** | [man page](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/artful/man1/palbart.1.html)
| **Manual** | [man page](https://manpages.org/palbart)
| **Delivery** | Internet, PiDP-8/I project

`palbart` is a popular fork of the `pal.c` assembler by [Douglas W. Jones](http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/) and Rich Coon, originally spun off by Gary A. Messenbrink — and later enhanced by several others — to support the fleet of PDP-8/e computers in the [Bay Area Rapid Transit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit) system; thus the name.

The PiDP-8/I software distribution includes a version calling itself "pal-2.13, 03 May 2015." 

If you place a `*.pal` file in either the `src/asm` or `examples` subdirectories of the software distribution, then type `make`, the build system will find your file and generate several output files named after it: