PAL/NTSC Check?

[Super TWiT]

I am trying to sort out whether I truly have a pal or ntsc amiga and test different emulated conditions as well.  As it turns out, sysinfo always says I am operating under a pal setup (both with my real amiga and an emulated ntsc amiga 500).  Anyway, I found this assembler code from here.  When trying to assemble the topmost example with vasmm68k for linux, I get these errors

error 4 in line 1 of "code": no current section specified

error 4 in line 2 of "code": no current section specified

error 4 in line 3 of "code": no current section specified

warning 1022 in line 5 of "code": missing '

error 4 in line 5 of "code": no current section specified

error 4 in line 6 of "code": no current section specified

***maximum number of errors reached!***

Anyone have any ideas as to why the example code won't work?  Is it the way my text editor saves unix-type line returns?

[Super TWiT]

I have no idea, I am completely new to assembly, and just was using vasm because it was free.  This is how I executed vasm from my terminal:

./vasmm68k_mot -o test code

The ./ is just launching an executable in linux.  I tried to run this

./vasmm68k_mot -Fhunkexe -o test -nosym code

as suggested by their tutorial to compile a CLI application, but I got this back

fatal error 17: could not initialize output module

[Super TWiT]

Okay, now we are getting somewhere.  I recompiled the application from source, and now the hunkexe module IS found.  Now, the compile errors I get are

warning 7 in line 5 of "code": ' expected

error 1 in line 5 of "code": illegal operand types

warning 7 in line 6 of "code": ' expected

error 1 in line 6 of "code": illegal operand types

I looked and there doesn't appear to be a produced output file.

[Super TWiT]

I don't, I just saw it online....  Do you know of any program that will tell me if I'm operating in ntsc or pal mode?  I tried sysinfo, but it always (no matter on my real amiga or on an emulated amiga which definitely is set to ntsc) that I'm running in PAL mode.