ASM and String output

I am working on a project and am really confused on how to output a series of strings. Here is the spec:

We are supposed to have a prompt that asks the user "Enter your name" then the user enters a string. When the user hits enter, the program displays "Hello(string), Do you like ASM? (Y/N)?" When the user presses Y, the program returns "You are one smart dude!" and return control to DOS. If the user presses N, then the program returns "Then take an art class" and return control to DOS.

Asking the question and having the program force y/n characters force to lowercase is easy. Displaying the yes and no conditions are easy. However, I am having trouble finding snippets on how to get the program to accept a string, output a string that says "Hello(inputted string) Do you like assembler?" into one output for the user to choose y or n.

Any help would be appreciated.

edit: I am learning using the 8088 instruction set and registers using TASM 1.1.

And Yes, I am Googling as we speak. :P

So Im guessing the lagnuage your programming in is Assembly? You could try http://www.planetsourcecode.com they have some source code on assembly last time I checked. They may have what your looking for.

What language...and if it is assembly, what processor?

/nebulus

EDIT: It has been sooo long since I hand-wrote assembler, this may no longer apply, but I remember with the MC68000, you had to write the string to a particular address (or maybe it was you set the pointer to the address having the string), then you would issue a Trap 13 to flush the buffer/print it out. Whether or not this applies anymore or not, I would expect that you would first have to build a string somewhere in memory (probably on your stack), then have whatever outputs the stuff to your screen point to the memory address where your string is...

Regardless, I guess you see why I was asking the processor (Intel can be psychotic to hand code compared to something like the MC68K or MIPS)..

Oh sorry. It is assembler, and we are learning on TASM 1.1 using the 8088 instruction set and registers.

Here's a quick and sloppy outline.

Code:

---

mov ah,40                ;write to file or device
mov bx,0001                ;standard output
mov cx,f                ;length
mov dx,200                ;address of prompt string
int 21                        ;DOS call
mov ah,3f                ;read from file or device
mov bx,0000                ;standard input
mov cx,ff                ;length of buffer
mov dx,300                ;address of buffer
int 21                        ;DOS call
mov ah,40                ;write to file or device
mov bx,0001                ;standard output
mov cx,ff                ;length of buffer
mov dx,300                ;address of buffer
int 21                        ;DOS call
mov ah,4c                ;terminate process
int 21                        ;DOS call

---

this will send a prompt message to standard output (DS DX is the address where you store it)
Then it accepts input from standard input (I've put arbitrary addresses and buffer lengths)
and then in sends your input back out to standard output. You can construct your
conversation with these two routines.
:cool: