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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Book On PC Interrupt Codes Wanted
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Date: 31 Aug 88 02:27:16 GMT
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In article <1140@agora.UUCP> john@agora.UUCP (John Cavanaugh) writes:
>
>  Howdy.  I am looking for a book that shows all of the interupt codes
>for the PC.  I want stuff like what interrupts do what, what has to be in
>the registers for things to happen, etc.
>
I looked at a number of books, and decided that by far the best is DOS
Programmer's Reference by Terry Dettmann, published by Que, ISBN
0-88022-327-8.  I think it's the only one that tells you about "undocumented"
interrupts.  It's not perfect though: it fails to explain how to truncate
a file.

This book is much better than the one from Microsoft Press.  It describes
DOS and BIOS interrupts, and tells you about directory structures and such
things.  It's $22.95.  (They are within a dollar of this price.)  Examples
are in assembly or C.  It's about 800 pages, and the information density is
high.  It can't be hard to find -- I bought mine at a bookstore in a mall.

Fred Sullivan				SUNY at Binghamton
Dept. Math. Sciences			Binghamton, NY 13903
					sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
First you make a roux!