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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
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.
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.
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.
It is mostly detailed explanations of undocumented system calls and
hardware interfaces.
If you want to contact R&D directly, here is their contact info
email rdorders@rdpub.com mail R&D Publications
FAX 913 841-2624 1601 W 23rd Suite 200
telephone 913 841-1631 Lawrence, KS 66046
I'm attaching the table of contents so you can see if any of it is what
you need.
Berney Williams
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