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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: A very good DOS technical reference found and available
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.093805.4720@uwasa.fi>
Date: 7 Dec 89 09:38:05 GMT
References: <1989Dec5.185610.20889@uwasa.fi> <7228@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <7228@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>In article <1989Dec5.185610.20889@uwasa.fi> ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
>}Tue 5-Dec-89: Obtained progref1.zip and progref2.zip.  They are very
>}impressive DOS technical references by Dave Williams.  And they make
>}a nice complement to the well-known inter589.arc reference by Ralf
>}Brown.  All these files are available by anonymous ftp from our
>}site, and they are located in the /pc/pd2 directory. 
>
>SIMTEL20 already has a more up-to-date version as 
>PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>1216REF2.ARC (the progref?.zip on chyde is 9/28/88, 1216ref2
>is 12/16/88).  BTW, large portions of the interrupt listing in the above were
>lifted verbatim (with a little reformatting) from an earlier version of the
>interrupt list I maintain (most likely INTER388 or INTER488).  I just wish
>Mr. Williams had given more credit than lumping "INTERRUP.ARC" together on one
>line with several other BBS-distributed files....

Yes, Keith Petersen was already kind enough to let me know of the
more recent version, and it is now available on chyde.uwasa.fi as
well.  It is in directory /pc/pd2.  Thanks for informing me.

I am not familiar with the history, but the principle is always
clear.  It is to "give credit where credit is due."

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