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1984-02-29
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;
; Program to compare the ages of two files.
;
; Dan Tappan, BBN, 2/22/84
;
; To build
; MASM OLDER;
; LINK OLDER;
; EXE2BIN OLDER.EXE OLDER.COM
;
; Usage
; OLDER <file1> <file2>
; Return value is 1 if <file1> is older than <file2>,
; 0 if <file1> is newer (or if <file2> doesn't exist)
;
TITLE OLDER
SPACE EQU 32 ; SPACE CHARACTER
CODE SEGMENT PARA
ASSUME CS:CODE
ORG 80H ; COMMAND LINE
CMDLINE LABEL BYTE
ORG 100H
OLDER PROC FAR
MOV AX,CS ; MAKE SURE DS SETUP
MOV DS,AX
ASSUME DS:CODE
MOV SI,OFFSET CMDLINE+1 ; POINT TO START OF BUFFER
MOV CX,0
MOV CL,CMDLINE ; GET THE STRING LENGTH
CALL GETWORD ; GET A PARAMTER
PUSH DI ; SAVE IT
CALL GETWORD ; GET ANOTHER
CALL GETDATE ; GET THE FILE DATE
POP DI ; GET NEXT STRING
PUSH CX ; SAVE TIME
PUSH DX ; AND DATE
CALL GETDATE ; GET DATES FOR OTHER
POP AX ; DATE FROM SECOND FILE
POP BX ; TIME FROM SECOND
CMP AX,DX ; COMPARE TO FIRST
JB OLD0 ; FIRST IS NEWER
JA OLD1 ; FIRST IS OLDER
CMP BX,CX ; COMPARE TIMES
JB OLD0 ; FIRST IS NEWER
; FIRST FILE IS OLDER, RETURN 1
OLD1: MOV AL,1
JMP OLDX ; LEAVE
; FIRST FILE IS NEWER, RETURN 0
OLD0: MOV AL,0
OLDX: MOV AH,4CH ; RETURN WITH STATUS
INT 21H
OLDER ENDP
;
; GETDATE - GET A FILES DATE
; CALLED
; DI/ POINTER TO NAME STRING
; RETURNS
; DX/ DATE
; CX/ TIME
;
GETDATE PROC NEAR
MOV DX,DI ; POINT TO STRING
MOV AH,3DH ; OPEN A FILE
MOV AL,0 ; FOR READING
INT 21H ; GET HANDLE
JC NOFILE ; ERROR RETURN
MOV BX,AX ; HANDLE
MOV AL,0 ; GET DATE
MOV AH,57H ; FUNCTION CODE
INT 21H ; DO IT
JMP GOTDATE ; RETURN THE VALUE
; HERE IF FILE DOES NOT EXIST
NOFILE: MOV CX,0 ; RETURN VALUE OF 0
MOV DX,CX ; ..
GOTDATE:
RET
GETDATE ENDP
;
; GETWORD - GET A PARMETER FROM THE COMMAND LINE
; CALLED
; SI/ START OF LINE (MAY HAVE LEADING SPACES)
; CX/ SIZE OF STRING
; RETURN
; DI/ START OF WORD (NULL TERMINATED)
; SI,CX/ UPDATED
;
GETWORD PROC NEAR
CLD ; DIRECTION IS FORWARD
PUSH SI ; SAVE START OF STRING
PUSH CX ; AND INITIAL COUNT
MOV BX,CX ; MAKE SURE PROPERLY TERMINATED
MOV AL,SPACE ; CODE TO SCAN FOR
MOV BYTE PTR [BX+SI],AL ; WITH A SPACE
MOV DI,SI ; START OF STRING
CMP CX,0 ; ANY STRING LEFT?
JLE GETWX ; RETURN NULL STRING
REPE SCASB ; SKIP SPACES
CMP CX,0 ; FOUND?
JLE GETWX ; AGAIN NULL STRING
NOT CX ; PREVENT STOPPING
DEC DI ; BACKUP TO START OF STRING
PUSH DI ; SAVE THE START
REPNE SCASB ; SCAN FOR END OF WORD
DEC DI ; POINT TO THE SPACE
MOV SI,DI ; UPDATE SI
POP DI ; REMEMBER START OF STRING
GETWX: MOV BYTE PTR [SI],0 ; NULL TERMINATE STRING
INC SI ; POINT TO NEXT
POP CX ; GET INITIAL COUNT
POP BX ; INITIAL SI
SUB BX,SI ; GET DIFFERENCE
ADD CX,BX ; UPDATE COUNT
RET
GETWORD ENDP
CODE ENDS
END OLDER