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- Path: erich.triumf.ca!bennett
- From: bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: DISK TRANSFER ADDRESS
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 22:15 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- Message-ID: <21MAR199622155902@erich.triumf.ca>
- References: <4it482$cg3@news.scott.net>
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- In article <4it482$cg3@news.scott.net>, ron@scott.net (Funnyman) writes...
- >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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- Since it appears that you are asking about the gory details of MS-DOS, and not
- about programming in C, you should probably ask this in an MS-DOS newsgroup,
- such as comp.os.msdos.programmer, rather than in comp.lang.c
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- The Borland C findfirst() and findnext() functions search the directory for any
- file name matching a pattern.
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