Add Copy and Compare, which stream in both directions at once

Copy joins the read and write streaming services: source and destination are
both larger than Data Memory while the program owns one block. Compare reads
two files through separate blocks and ignores the bytes past a short final
block, which belong to neither file. Between them they exercise empty,
exact-block, part-block and 84,000 byte files, and the host extracts the copy
afterwards so that two native programs agreeing with each other is not the only
oracle.

Written by ChatGPT, as their headers record, along with the agree.sh section
and the manifest entry that drive them.

THIS SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. The commit before it staged whole files rather
than the hunks it meant, so its manifest already names these two programs while
their source was still untracked - that commit will not build on its own. Left
in place rather than rewritten, since the pair is right and only their order is
wrong.

NOTES.md is their review of the streaming work. The first item in it is fixed
by the commit before this one; the rest are still open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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; Compare two files without asking either one to fit in Data Memory.
;
; Each occupied block is read into its own 256-byte buffer. The byte count returned for
; the block is compared before its contents, and only those bytes are examined: bytes
; after the end of a short final block belong to neither file and are allowed to differ.
;
; Written by ChatGPT for Anachronaut's SplitBit
#Include services.asm
#Program
#Base 0x4000
start:
SETD.0 Arguments
INIB 0xFF
SWI osArgument
SETD.0 Arguments
LDA.0
BRA usage
CALL textSplit
SETD.0 TextRest
LDD.0.0
LDA.0
BRA usage
SETD.0 Arguments
SWI osFileInfo
BNQ firstFailed
SETD.0 FirstBlocks
STD.3.0
SETD.0 TextRest
LDD.0.0
SWI osFileInfo
BNQ secondFailed
SETD.0 SecondBlocks
STD.3.0
; A different number of occupied blocks is immediately a different file.
SETD.0 FirstBlocks
LDA.0
SETD.1 SecondBlocks
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
INCD.0
INCD.1
LDA.0
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
SETD.0 FirstBlocks
SETD.1 RemainingBlocks
CALL copyWord
RSTA
SETD.0 Index
STA.0
INCD.0
STA.0
nextBlock:
SETD.0 RemainingBlocks
LDA.0
INCD.0
LDB.0
OR
BRQ alike
SETD.0 Arguments
SETD.1 FirstBlock
CALL readAtIndex
BNQ firstReadFailed
SETD.0 FirstCount
STD.3.0
SETD.0 TextRest
LDD.0.0
SETD.1 SecondBlock
CALL readAtIndex
BNQ secondReadFailed
SETD.0 SecondCount
STD.3.0
; Equal occupied-block counts do not imply equal tails, so compare the valid byte count
; returned for this block as well.
SETD.0 FirstCount
LDA.0
SETD.1 SecondCount
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
INCD.0
INCD.1
LDA.0
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
SETD.0 FirstCount
SETD.1 BytesLeft
CALL copyWord
SETD.0 FirstBlock
SETD.1 SecondBlock
compareByte:
SETD.2 BytesLeft
LDA.2
INCD.2
LDB.2
OR
BRQ blockSame
LDA.0
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
INCD.0
INCD.1
SETD.2 BytesLeft
CALL takeByte
BRI compareByte
blockSame:
CALL stepIndex
CALL takeBlock
BRI nextBlock
; DP0 is the path and DP1 the destination buffer. Q and DP3 are the service answers.
readAtIndex:
SETD.2 Index
LDA.2
INCD.2
LDB.2
SWI osFileBlock
RET
; DP0 names the source word and DP1 the destination word.
copyWord:
LDA.0
STA.1
INCD.0
INCD.1
LDA.0
STA.1
RET
stepIndex:
SETD.0 Index
INCD.0
LDA.0
INCA
STA.0
BNC stepDone
DECD.0
LDA.0
INCA
STA.0
stepDone:
RET
takeBlock:
SETD.0 RemainingBlocks
INCD.0
LDA.0
BRA blockBorrow
DECA
STA.0
RET
blockBorrow:
INIA 0xFF
STA.0
DECD.0
LDA.0
DECA
STA.0
RET
; Decrement the big-endian sixteen-bit BytesLeft. A full block arrives as 0x0100, so an
; eight-bit counter would compare none of it and call many different files equal.
takeByte:
INCD.2
LDA.2
BRA byteBorrow
DECA
STA.2
RET
byteBorrow:
INIA 0xFF
STA.2
DECD.2
LDA.2
DECA
STA.2
RET
alike:
SETD.0 SameText
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
different:
SETD.0 DifferentText
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
usage:
SETD.0 Usage
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
firstFailed:
SETD.0 FirstError
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
secondFailed:
SETD.0 SecondError
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
firstReadFailed:
SETD.0 FirstReadError
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
secondReadFailed:
SETD.0 SecondReadError
SWI osPrintString
SWI osExit
#Data
#Base 0x2000
Arguments:
#Reserve 0d256
FirstBlocks:
0x00 0x00
SecondBlocks:
0x00 0x00
RemainingBlocks:
0x00 0x00
Index:
0x00 0x00
FirstCount:
0x00 0x00
SecondCount:
0x00 0x00
BytesLeft:
0x00 0x00
FirstBlock:
#Reserve 0d256
SecondBlock:
#Reserve 0d256
Usage:
"compare: give me two files
"
FirstError:
"compare: cannot find the first file
"
SecondError:
"compare: cannot find the second file
"
FirstReadError:
"compare: cannot read the first file
"
SecondReadError:
"compare: cannot read the second file
"
SameText:
"the same
"
DifferentText:
"different
"
#Include text.asm