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- From: falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: advanced beginner needs book recomendations
- Message-ID: <l6os6uINN74h@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:17:34 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- What's an "advanced beginner" you ask? Me. I'm extremely fluent in
- both CP/M and Unix but don't know squat about MS-Dos. I'd like to get
- a book that contains all the info I need to know about programming
- MS-Dos. I don't want to buy one of those $30, 5-pound books that hold
- your hand step by step and by the time you've read all 800 pages you
- finally know how to copy a file. (I've already got a commands handbook.)
-
- I'm looking for a book that concisely explains all the system calls. I
- want to know how to do everything. I want to know how to write device
- drivers. And I want it all in under 200 pages.
-
- Basicly, I'm looking for a reference book, not a tutorial. If it had
- a chapter on 80386 machine language that would be nice too.
-
- Anybody have any any favorite books they want to recommend?
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