Um, yeah. That would help.
But, the following is something you could play with, it's assembly if you haven't figured it out yet.
TITLE NO9
PAGE 60,132
.MODEL SMALL
.STACK 64
.DATA
DATA_ASC DB 'What is your Name ? ','$'
ORG 20H
BUFFER DB 20,?,20 DUP(0),'$'
ORG 40H
.CODE
MAIN PROC FAR
MOV AX,@DATA
MOV DS,AX
MOV AX,0600H
MOV BH,07
MOV CX,0000H
MOV DH,24
MOV DL,79
INT 10H
MOV AH,02H
MOV BH,00
MOV DL,20
MOV DH,15
INT 10H
MOV AH,09
MOV DX,OFFSET DATA_ASC
INT 21H
MOV AH,0AH
MOV DX,OFFSET BUFFER
INT 21H
MOV AH,02
MOV BH,00
MOV DL,20
MOV DH,17
INT 10H
MOV AH,09
MOV DX,[OFFSET BUFFER]+2
INT 21H
MOV AH,4CH
INT 21H
MAIN ENDP
END MAIN