;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; NOLPT.ASM Public Domain 1992, 1995 Ralf Brown ; You may do with this software whatever you want, but ; common courtesy dictates that you not remove my name ; from it. ; ; Trap output to a particular printer port and always return 'ready' ; or success, even if no printer is attached. ; ; Version 0.92 ; LastEdit: 9/24/95 ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDE AMIS.MAC @Startup 2,00 ; need DOS 2.00 ; this macro also takes care of declaring ; all the segments in the required order ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; VERSION_NUM equ 005Ch ; v0.92 VERSION_STR equ "0.92" ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; useful macros ; LODSB_ES MACRO DB 26h,0ACh ; LODSB ES: ENDM ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Put the resident code into its own segment so that all the offsets are ; proper for the new location after copying it into a UMB or down into ; the PSP. ; TSRcode@ ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Declare the interrupt vectors hooked by the program, then set up the ; Alternate Multiplex Interrupt Spec handler ; HOOKED_INTS 17h ; hooking INT 17h in add. to INT 2Dh ALTMPX 'Ralf B','NOLPT',VERSION_NUM,'Turn printer port into bit bucket',,,,,Y ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Now the meat of the resident portion, the printer interrupt handler. ; We can save one byte by specifying the hardware reset handler set up by ; the ALTMPX macro above ; ISP_HEADER 17h,hw_reset_2Dh printer_port equ byte ptr ($+2) cmp dx,0 ; will be patched to printer port jne use_old_int17 cmp ah,0 je int17_func00 cmp ah,2 je int17_func02 use_old_int17: jmp ORIG_INT17h int17_func00: ; don't output character, simply return 'ready' ; (fall through to func02) int17_func02: mov ah,90h ; yes, printer is ready iret TSRcodeEnd@ ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- _TEXT SEGMENT 'CODE' ASSUME cs:_TEXT,ds:NOTHING,es:NOTHING,ss:NOTHING banner db 'NOLPT v',VERSION_STR,' Public Domain 1992 Ralf Brown',13,10,'$' usage db 'Usage:',9,'NOLPT 1',9,9,'disable LPT1',13,10 db 9,'...',13,10 db 9,'NOLPT 4',9,9,'disable LPT4',13,10 db 9,'NOLPT 1U',9,'uninstall from LPT1',13,10 db 9,'etc.',13,10 db '$' installed_msg db "Installed on LPT" lpt_number db " " db ".",13,10,"$" cant_install_msg db "Unable to install.",13,10,"$" already_inst_msg db "Already installed.",13,10,"$" cant_remove_msg db "Can't remove from memory.",13,10,"$" removed_msg db "Removed.",13,10,"$" @Startup2 Y push ds pop es ASSUME ES:_INIT push cs pop ds ASSUME DS:_TEXT ; ; say hello ; DISPLAY_STRING banner mov bx,1000h ; set memory block to 64K mov ah,4Ah int 21h mov si,81h cmdline_loop: lodsb_es cmp al,' ' ; skip blanks and tabs on commandline je cmdline_loop cmp al,9 je cmdline_loop mov dx,offset _TEXT:usage cmp al,'1' jb exit_with_message cmp al,'4' ja exit_with_message push es ; save for later use mov es,TGROUP@ ASSUME ES:TGROUP mov byte ptr ALTMPX_SIGNATURE+14,al mov byte ptr lpt_number,al sub al,'1' mov printer_port,al pop es ; restore addressing to PSP ASSUME ES:_INIT lodsb_es ; get next character and al,0DFh ; force to uppercase cmp al,'U' jne installing removing: UNINSTALL cant_uninstall DISPLAY_STRING removed_msg mov ax,4C00h int 21h cant_uninstall: mov dx,offset _TEXT:cant_remove_msg jmp short exit_with_message already_installed: mov dx,offset _TEXT:already_inst_msg exit_with_message: mov ah,9 int 21h mov ax,4C01h int 21h installing: ; ; place any necessary pre-initialization here ; INSTALL_TSR ,BEST,,inst_notify,already_installed,cant_install cant_install: mov dx,offset _TEXT:cant_install_msg jmp exit_with_message inst_notify: DISPLAY_STRING installed_msg ret _TEXT ENDS end INIT