1 ; SCCSID = @(#)dossym.asm 1.1 85/04/10
2 ; SCCSID = @(#)dossym.asm 1.1 85/04/10
13 INCLUDE VERSIONA.INC ;DEFINE THE MAJOR AND MINOR VERSION NUMBERS
19 BREAK <Control character definitions>
21 c_DEL EQU 7Fh ; ASCII rubout or delete previous char
22 c_BS EQU 08h ; ^H ASCII backspace
23 c_CR EQU 0Dh ; ^M ASCII carriage return
24 c_LF EQU 0Ah ; ^J ASCII linefeed
25 c_ETB EQU 17h ; ^W ASCII end of transmission
26 c_NAK EQU 15h ; ^U ASCII negative acknowledge
27 c_ETX EQU 03h ; ^C ASCII end of text
28 c_HT EQU 09h ; ^I ASCII tab
30 BREAK <Read This and Weep>
32 ;----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----;
34 ; C A V E A T P R O G R A M M E R ;
36 ; Certain structures, constants and system calls below are private to ;
37 ; the DOS and are extremely version-dependent. They may change at any ;
38 ; time at the implementors' whim. As a result, they must not be ;
39 ; documented to the general public. If an extreme case arises, they ;
40 ; must be documented with this warning. ;
42 ; Those structures and constants that are subject to the above will be ;
43 ; marked and bracketed with the flag: ;
45 ; C A V E A T P R O G R A M M E R ;
47 ;----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----;
53 BREAK <User stack inside of system call and SysVars>
54 ; Location of user registers relative user stack pointer
78 ; MSDOS partitions the disk into 4 sections:
80 ; phys sector 0: +-------------------+
82 ; | +-------------------+
83 ; | | File allocation |
85 ; | (multiple copies |
87 ; +-------------------+
89 ; +-------------------+
91 ; +-------------------+
93 ; | (to end of disk) |
94 ; +-------------------+
96 ; All partition boundaries are sector boundaries. The size of the FAT is
97 ; adjusted to maximize the file space addressable.
101 BREAK <File allocation Table information>
103 ; The File Allocation Table uses a 12-bit entry for each allocation unit on
104 ; the disk. These entries are packed, two for every three bytes. The contents
105 ; of entry number N is found by 1) multiplying N by 1.5; 2) adding the result
106 ; to the base address of the Allocation Table; 3) fetching the 16-bit word
107 ; at this address; 4) If N was odd (so that N*1.5 was not an integer), shift
108 ; the word right four bits; 5) mask to 12 bits (AND with 0FFF hex). Entry
109 ; number zero is used as an end-of-file trap in the OS and is passed to the
110 ; BIOS to help determine disk format. Entry 1 is reserved for future use.
111 ; The first available allocation unit is assigned entry number two, and even
112 ; though it is the first, is called cluster 2. Entries greater than 0FF8H
113 ; (12-bit fats) or 0FFF8H (16-bit fats) are end of file marks; entries of zero
114 ; are unallocated. Otherwise, the contents of a FAT entry is the number of
115 ; the next cluster in the file.
117 ; Clusters with bad sectors are tagged with FF7H. Any non-zero number would
118 ; do because these clusters show as allocated, but are not part of any
119 ; allocation chain and thus will never be allocated to a file. A particular
120 ; number is selected so that disk checking programs know what to do (ie. a
121 ; cluster with entry FF7H which is not in a chain is not an error).
148 ;include filemode.INC
154 include doscntry.inc ;J.K. 5/26/86