Echo BASIC - Memcopy

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 04-07-93 (16:07)             Number: 299
From: MARK BUTLER                  Refer#: NONE
  To: WAYNE VENABLES                Recvd: NO  
Subj: Memcopy                        Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

Once upon a time Wayne Venables uttered these sage words to All:

 WV> I really need a good memory copy routine with...

 WV>         Source Segment/Offset
 WV>         Destination Segment/Offset
 WV>         Number of bytes to copy

 WV>  I remember a memcopy.obj that was posted here a while ago,
 WV> can anybody  repost!!!

 Coming right up! This little ASM goodie was written by Brent Ashley and
 has work extremely well for me and the QB declaration is precisely what
 you said you wanted.

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  PAGE 56,132
 TITLE MemCopy.ASM - QuickBasic callable memory block copy bin file
 ;
 ; MemCopy.ASM - (C)1991 by Brent Ashley
 ; Copies blocks of memory quickly - to be used for screen saves.
 ;
 ; QB/QBX declaration:
 ;
 ; DECLARE SUB MemCopy (FromSeg%, FromOfs%, ToSeg%, ToOfs%, Count%)

 .MODEL medium, BASIC
 .CODE

 MemCopy PROC USES si di ds es, FromSeg:PTR WORD, FromOfs:PTR WORD, \
                               ToSeg:PTR WORD, ToOfs:PTR WORD, \
                               Count:PTR WORD

 ; load ds:si with source, es:di with destination
 mov bx,FromOfs
 mov si,[bx]
 mov bx,ToSeg
 mov es,[bx]
 mov bx,ToOfs
 mov di,[bx]
 mov bx,Count
 mov cx,[bx]

 ; ds last (used to access data)
 mov bx,FromSeg
 mov ds,[bx]

 ; do the copy
 cld
 rep movsb

 ret

 MemCopy  ENDP

 END
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 Now, if you don't happen to have MASM or TASM to assemble it with
 here's a little PostIt! script to recompile MEMCOPY.OBJ
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 '** Save this script to a file, edit out all of the non-QB related
 '** text and execute it in a QB environment to retrieve MEMCOPY.OBJ
 CLS:?STRING$(50,177):?"Creating:MEMCOPY.OBJ with PostIt! v2.9f"
 DEFINT A-Z:FOR A=0 TO 6:P(A)=2^A:NEXT:OPEN "B",1,"MEMCOPY.OBJ"
 T$="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":T$=T$+UCASE$(T$)+"0123456789()"
 G"a2aal0wzTn2BWLNlHnxB)Bjlaaadnvutd9euz9fvfHfvf8frbrvqgq0rs9uvqvW
 G"xuvewurarbrvqem0tevuoyEaaibaafCqamG5baGeaamGbb8aMhaasRaGahea5As
 G"aae8VaDbPdaaWah0urnn0tqLfaaaGpisaaaiAard6lamaaau1ISB1vEyWIEXWI3
 G"SOxk44bl6fcl(ZIEzWIpSOxo44h8ppPh8XxE1LYkaWWkkaaaqh"
 N=179:K=255:IF LEN(C$)<>239 THEN ?"Incomplete script file!":BEEP:END
 FOR A=1 TO N:IF L=0 THEN GOSUB G:L=6:LOCATE 1:?STRING$((51&*A)\N,8)
 W=T\P(6-L):GOSUB G:W=W OR T*P(L):L=L-2:B$=CHR$(W AND K):PUT 1,,B$:NEXT
 ?:IF C<>22 THEN ?"Bad checksum!":BEEP:END ELSE ?"Success!":END
 G:I=I+1:T=INSTR(T$,MID$(C$,I,1))-1:C=(C+T)*2:C=C\256+(C AND 255):RETURN
 SUB G(A$):SHARED C$:C$=C$+LEFT$(A$,63):END SUB
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 Hope this helps :-)

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