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; rmod - resident module of the SvarCOM command interpreter

;

; Copyright (C) 2021 Mateusz Viste

; MIT license

;

; this is installed in memory by the transient part of SvarCOM. it has only

; two jobs: providing a resident buffer for command history, environment, etc

; and respawning COMMAND.COM whenever necessary.

CPU 8086

org 0h           ; this is meant to be executed without a PSP

section .text    ; all goes into code segment

                 ; offset

SIG1 dw 0x1983   ;  +0

SIG2 dw 0x1985   ;  +2

SIG3 dw 0x2017   ;  +4

SIG4 dw 0x2019   ;  +6

; environment segment - this is updated by SvarCOM at init time

ENVSEG   dw 0    ;  +8

; exit code of last application

LEXCODE  dw 0    ; +0Ah

; input buffer used for the "previous command" history

BUF000 db 128, 0 ; +0Ch

BUF064 db "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF"

BUF128 db "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF"

; offset of the COMSPEC variable in the environment block, 0 means "use

; boot drive". this value is patched by the transient part of COMMAND.COM

COMSPECPTR dw 0  ; +8Eh

; fallback COMSPEC string used if no COMPSEC is present in the environment

; drive. drive is patched by the transient part of COMMAND.COM

COMSPECBOOT db "@:\COMMAND.COM", 0 ; +90h

; ECHO status used by COMMAND.COM. 0 = ECHO OFF, 1 = ECHO ON

CMDECHO db 1     ; +9Fh

; segment of the first batch in batch chain. this is used by transient

; COMMAND.COM to chain multiple batch files (through CALL). 0 means "none".

BATCHCHAIN dw 0  ; +A0h

skipsig:         ; +A2h

; set up CS=DS=SS and point SP to my private stack buffer

mov ax, cs

mov ds, ax

mov es, ax

mov ss, ax

mov sp, STACKPTR

; collect the exit code of previous application

mov ah, 0x4D

int 0x21

xor ah, ah          ; clear out termination status, I only want the exit code

mov [LEXCODE], ax

; preset the default COMSPEC pointer to ES:DX (ES is already set to DS)

mov dx, COMSPECBOOT

; do I have a valid COMSPEC?

or [COMSPECPTR], word 0

jz USEDEFAULTCOMSPEC

; set ES:DX to actual COMSPEC

mov es, [ENVSEG]

mov dx, [COMSPECPTR]

USEDEFAULTCOMSPEC:

; prepare the exec param block

mov ax, [ENVSEG]

mov [EXEC_PARAM_REC], ax

mov ax, CMDTAIL

mov [EXEC_PARAM_REC+2], ax

mov [EXEC_PARAM_REC+4], cs

; execute command.com

mov ax, 0x4B00         ; DOS 2+ - load & execute program

push es                ;

pop ds                 ;

;mov dx, COMSPEC       ; DS:DX  - ASCIZ program name (preset already)

push cs

pop es

mov bx, EXEC_PARAM_REC ; ES:BX  - parameter block pointer

int 0x21

; if all went well, jump back to start

jnc skipsig

; restore DS=CS

mov bx, cs

mov ds, bx

; update error string so it contains the error number

add al, '0'

mov [ERRLOAD + 4], al

; display error message

mov ah, 0x09

mov dx, ERRLOAD

int 0x21

; wait for keypress

mov ah, 0x08

int 0x21

; back to program start

jmp skipsig

; command.com tail arguments, in PSP format (length byte followed by arg)

CMDTAIL db 0

; ExecParamRec used by INT 21h, AX=4b00 (load and execute program), 14 bytes:

;  offset  size  content

;     +0     2   segment of environment for child (0 = current)

;     +2     4   address of command line to place at PSP:0080

;     +6     4   address of an FCB to be placed at PSP:005c

;    +0Ah    4   address of an FCB to be placed at PSP:006c

EXEC_PARAM_REC db 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

ERRLOAD db "ERR x, FAILED TO LOAD COMMAND.COM", 13, 10, '$'

; DOS int 21h functions that I use require at least 32 bytes of stack, here I

; allocate 64 bytes to be sure

STACKBUF db "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF"

STACKPTR db "xx"