include stdlib.a includelib stdlib.lib cseg segment byte public 'CODE' assume cs:cseg, ds:dseg, es:dseg, ss:sseg ; Note CR and LF are already defined in STDLIB.A tab equ 09h MainPgm proc far ; Properly set up the segment registers: mov ax, seg dseg mov es, ax ;Leave DS pointing at PSP ;--------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; First, parse the command line to get the filename: mov si, 81h ;Pointer to command line lea di, FileName ;Pointer to FileName buffer SkipDelimiters: lodsb ;Get next character call TestDelimiter je SkipDelimiters ; Assume that what follows is an actual filename dec si ;Point at 1st char of name GetFName: lodsb cmp al, 0dh je GotName call TestDelimiter je GotName stosb ;Save character in file name jmp GetFName ; We're at the end of the filename, so zero-terminate it as ; required by DOS. GotName: mov byte ptr es:[di], 0 mov ax, es ;Point DS at DSEG mov ds, ax ; Now process the file mov ah, 3dh mov al, 0 ;Open file for reading lea dx, Filename ;File to open int 21h jnc GoodOpen print byte 'Cannot open file, aborting program...',cr,0 jmp PgmExit GoodOpen: mov FileHandle, ax ;Save file handle mov Position, 0 ;Initialize file position ReadFileLp: mov al, byte ptr Position and al, 0Fh ;Compute (Position MOD 16) jnz NotNewLn ;Every 16 bytes start a line putcr mov ax, Position ;Print offset into file xchg al, ah puth xchg al, ah puth print byte ': ',0 NotNewLn: inc Position ;Increment character count mov bx, FileHandle mov cx, 1 ;Read one byte lea dx, buffer ;Place to store that byte mov ah, 3Fh ;Read operation int 21h jc BadRead cmp ax, 1 ;Reached EOF? jnz AtEOF mov al, Buffer ;Get the character read and puth ; print it in hex mov al, ' ' ;Print a space between values putc jmp ReadFileLp BadRead: print byte cr, lf byte 'Error reading data from file, aborting.' byte cr,lf,0 AtEOF: mov bx, FileHandle ;Close the file mov ah, 3Eh int 21h ;--------------------------------------------------------------- PgmExit: ExitPgm MainPgm endp TestDelimiter proc near cmp al, ' ' je xit cmp al, ',' je xit cmp al, Tab je xit cmp al, ';' je xit cmp al, '=' xit: ret TestDelimiter endp cseg ends dseg segment byte public 'data' PSP word ? Filename byte 64 dup (0) ;Filename to dump FileHandle word ? Buffer byte ? Position word 0 dseg ends sseg segment byte stack 'stack' stk word 0ffh dup (?) sseg ends zzzzzzseg segment para public 'zzzzzz' LastBytes byte 16 dup (?) zzzzzzseg ends end MainPgm