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- From: ron@scott.net (Funnyman)
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- Subject: DISK TRANSFER ADDRESS
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 02:44:03 GMT
- Organization: Scott Network Services, Inc.
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- I have some questions concerning the disk transfer address. i found a
- fucntion that will find the DTA and i was
- told that the DTA is part of the PSP by default, that it resides in
- the command tail at 80h. Is that true? I have conflicting stories on
- that one. Also, i was told that DOS uses the area for findfirst and
- findnext file operations. Could someone please elaborate on what
- those functions do. Can the DTA span a 64k segment boundary? What
- does that exactly mean? Thanks in advance.
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- Is there a good book someone could recommend on DOS programming? I am
- really new at DOS programming and would like a good reference book.
- Thanks again.
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