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- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- From: rdpub@tyrell.net (Kevin Taute)
- Subject: System Programming
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:07:54 GMT
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- Many of the questions I see posted to this group have detailed answers
- in a large book of System Programming tips: the third edition of
- _MS-DOS System Programming_ edited by Robert Ward & David Burki. It is
- about 850 pages with a code disk included.
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- The book is published by R&D Publications, the publishers of
- _Windows/DOS Developer's Journal_, and you can get it directly from
- them for $39.95, or get it in most technical bookstores. The bookstores
- get it from Prentice Hall, so it has a Prentice ISBN 0-13-207382-X.
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- Janusz Zalewski, software reviewer for _IEEE Computer_ called the second
- edition "the best book on DOS programming I have seen," and the third
- edition is three times as large, updated for DOS 5 & 6.
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- It is mostly detailed explanations of undocumented system calls and
- hardware interfaces.
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- If you want to contact R&D directly, here is their contact info
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- email rdorders@rdpub.com mail R&D Publications
- FAX 913 841-2624 1601 W 23rd Suite 200
- telephone 913 841-1631 Lawrence, KS 66046
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- I'm attaching the table of contents so you can see if any of it is what
- you need.
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- Berney Williams
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- Contents
- 1 Accessing the Global MS-DOS Environment Scott Robert Ladd
- 2 Navigating the DOS File Allocation Table Robert L. Hummel
- 3 Modifying DOS Boots Steven K. Graham
- 4 Converting a Microsoft C Program into A TSR Michael J. Young
- 5 Loading TSRs into Expanded Memory Thomas W. Olsen
- 6 Making Windows and DOS Programs Talk Thomas W. Olsen
- 7 A Swapping Replacement for the spawn() Family Ralf Brown
- 8 Exploiting the 386 Four Byte Moves Davie Lee Reed
- 9 The LOADALL Instruction Robert Collins
- 10 Critical Error Handling David Burki
- 11 Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break Handling under MS-DOS David L. Burki
- 12 Handling DOS File Handle Limits David Burki
- 13 Preventing Lost Keystrokes David Burki
- 14 Gracefully Breaking Out of Infinite Loops David Burki
- 15 Checking for Debug Information Matt Pietrek
- 16 Programming the PC Game Port John F. Jarrett
- 17 Using the Parallel Port for High Speed File Transfer David McCombs
- 18 SERIAL.TXT Russell L. Jacobs
- 19 VGA Animation Graphics Rick Ladymon
- 20 The Math Coprocessor Lee Daniel Crocker
- 21 Interfacing to the PC Floppy Disk Controller Larry Widing
- 22 Writing for the PC Speaker Robert Bybee
- 23 Event Timing on MS-DOS PCs Phyllis K. Lang
- 24 Writing Device Drivers with Turbo C Robert Allen
- 25 Using CD-ROM Device Drivers Dirk S Baum
- 26 DMA Revealed Karen Hazzah
- 27 Self-Loading Device Drivers for DOS Tomas Nelson
- 28 Interfacing a Windows Program to a Real-Mode Device Driver Charles Mirho
- 29 DDE to DOS Guy Eddon
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