Function 40h Write To A File Or Device
Write to file with handle
entry AH 40h
BX file handle
CX number of bytes to write
DS:DX address of buffer
return flag CF 0 successful write
1 error
AX number of bytes written
or error code (5, 6)
note 1) This call attempts to transfer the number of bytes indicated in CX
from a buffer to a file. If CX and AX do not match after the write,
an error has taken place; however no error code will be returned for
this problem. This is usually caused by a full disk.
2) If the write is performed to STDOUT (handle 0001), it may be redirected
3) To truncate the file at the current position of the file pointer, set
the number of bytes in CX to zero before calling int 21h. The pointer
can be moved to any desired position with function 42h.
4) This function will not write to a file or device marked read-only.
5) May also be used to display strings to CON instead of fn 09h. This
function will write CX bytes and stop; fn 09h will continue to write
until a $ character is found.
6) This is the call that DOS actually uses to write to the screen in DOS
2.x and above.
7) for FAT32 drives, the file must have been opened with AX=6C00h with
the "extended size" flag in order to expand the file beyond 2GB;
otherwise the write will fail with error code 0005h (access denied)
bugs a write of zero bytes will appear to succeed when it actually failed
if the write is extending the file and there is not enough disk
space for the expanded file (DOS 5.0-6.0); one should therefore check
whether the file was in fact extended by seeking to 0 bytes from
the end of the file (INT 21/AX=4202h/CX=0000h/DX=0000h)
Attempting to read close to 64k of data in one chunk MAY result in data corruption
near the end of the block when running under Window 98.
file: /Techref/INT/21f/40.htm, 1KB, , updated: 1999/6/14 13:26, local time: 2024/11/19 11:11,
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