In a message dated 01-17-99, David Van Hoose said to All about "OS/2 ASM
Application"

Hi David,

DH>I want to write the character 'Z' to STDOUT.

How about "Hello, World!" instead?

============================= HWORLD.ASM ===================================
; OS/2 32-bit command line program. Sample of assembler code.
; Copyright: Public domain
           .486
           .MODEL FLAT,PASCAL

           .CONST
MsgText    DB     "Hello, World!"
MsgLen     EQU    $-MsgText

           EXTERN DosPutMessage: NEAR
STDOUT     EQU    1                    ; File handle for STDOUT: device

           .CODE
HelloWorld PROC   NEAR
           PUSH   EBP
           MOV    EBP,ESP

; Call DosPutMessage to display our message
           PUSH   OFFSET MsgText
           PUSH   MsgLen
           PUSH   STDOUT
           CALL   DosPutMessage
           ADD    ESP,12

; Clean stack area and return
           MOV    ESP,EBP
           POP    EBP
           RET
HelloWorld ENDP

           .STACK

           END    HelloWorld
============================= HWORLD.DEF ===================================
NAME HWORLD WINDOWCOMPAT
DESCRIPTION 'Sample text-mode program in assembler'
STACKSIZE 16384
IMPORTS
   DOSPUTMESSAGE=MSG.5
============================================================================

This even includes the import, so you don't need OS2386.LIB. Note also that
I assembled it with WASM and/or ALP, not TASM.

Regards

Dave

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