.xlist ; Includes for the library routines. For performance reasons you may want ; to replace the "stdlib.a" include with the names of the individual packages ; you actually use. Doing so will speed up assembly by quite a bit. include stdlib.a includelib stdlib.lib ; Note: if you want to use the pattern matching functions in the patterns ; package, uncomment the following line: ; matchfuncs .list ;***************************************************************************** dseg segment para public 'data' ; Global variables go here: ; Note: If you want to use the STDLIB standard character sets (alpha, digits, ; etc.) uncomment the following line: ; include stdsets.a dseg ends ;***************************************************************************** cseg segment para public 'code' assume cs:cseg, ds:dseg ;----------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; Here is a good place to put your procedures, ; functions, and other routines: ; ; ; ; ;----------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; Main is the main program. Program execution always begins here. ; Main proc mov ax, dseg mov ds, ax mov es, ax ; Start by calling the memory manager initialization routine. This ; particular call allocates all available memory to the heap. See ; MEMINIT2 if you want to allocate a fixed heap. ; ; Many library routines use the heap, hence the presence of this call ; in this file. On the other hand, you may safely remove this call ; if you do not call any library routines which use the heap. meminit ;*************************************************************************** ; ; Put your main program here. ; ;*************************************************************************** Quit: ExitPgm ;DOS macro to quit program. Main endp cseg ends ; Allocate a reasonable amount of space for the stack (8k). ; Note: if you use the pattern matching package you should set up a ; somewhat larger stack. sseg segment para stack 'stack' stk db 1024 dup ("stack ") sseg ends ; zzzzzzseg must be the last segment that gets loaded into memory! ; This is where the heap begins. zzzzzzseg segment para public 'zzzzzz' LastBytes db 16 dup (?) zzzzzzseg ends end Main