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- For DOS 2.0 (or later)
-
- My apologies for the presumptuous sounding name of
- this program. It doesn't quite do what it sounds
- capable of doing, but it does make the job a bit
- easier.
- I use this program whenever I want to convert a
- COM file to assembler source code, for subsequent
- modification and re-assembly. Here's how it works:
-
- Get into debug with the COM file you're working
- with, and locate the areas containing the code
- (stay away from the data areas). Write down the
- starting and ending addresses for all the code
- areas in the file, and quit.
- Back in dos, create a file to be piped into the
- standard input of the debug program, containing
- the commands necessary to unassemble the program.
- The easiest way to do this is to use the copy
- command.
-
- A>copy con file1
- u addr1 addr2 <-- unassemble the file
- u addr3 addr4
- . (etc.)
- .
- q <-- DON'T FORGET THIS!
- ^Z
-
- 1 File(s) copied
-
- A>
- Now, type
- DEBUG (filename).COM <FILE1 >FILE2
-
- This will (given enough time) generate a file
- called FILE2 containing the result of the
- above commands to debug. Now, run the
- COM2ASM.BAS program, enter FILE2 in response
- to the "Input file?" prompt, and some other
- (new) file name for the output file prompt.
- The program will then read file2, get rid of the
- hex addresses on the left and the op code,
- label the intra-segment jumps and calls and their
- destinations with labels of the form "Ln",
- where 0<n<999, and send the results to the output
- file. The result is compatible (as far as it
- goes) with the macro assembler.
-
-
- Rich Winkel
- Columbia, Mo.
- the output
- file. The result is compati