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Assembly Source File  |  1988-08-11  |  680 b   |  15 lines
  1. kbuf    db      80              ; maximum length of read
  2.         db      0               ; actual length of read
  3.         db      80 dup (0)      ; keyboard input goes here
  4.         .
  5.         .
  6.         .
  7.         mov     dx,seg kbuf     ; set DS:DX = address of
  8.         mov     ds,dx           ; keyboard input buffer
  9.         mov     dx,offset kbuf
  10.         mov     ah,0ah          ; function 0AH = read buffered line
  11.         int     21h             ; transfer to MS-DOS
  12.                                 ; terminated by a carriage return,
  13.                                 ; and kbuf+1 = length of input,
  14.                                 ; not including the carriage return
  15.