The MS-DOS Encyclopedia

✍ Scribed by Ray Duncan

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1569
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive and updated reference contains detailed information on MS-DOS versions 1.0 through 3.2, covering the development of MS-DOS, programming tools and techniques and commands.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Section I - The Development of MS-DOS
Section II - Programming in the MS-DOS Environment
Part A - Structure of MS-DOS
1 - An Introduction to MS-DOS
2 - The Components of MS-DOS
3 - MS-DOS Storage Devices
Part B - Programming for MS-DOS
4 - Structure of an Application Program
5 - Character Device Input and Output
6 - Interrupt-Driven Communications
7 - File and Record Management
8 - Disk Directories and Volume Labels
9 - Memory Management
10 - The MS-DOS EXEC Function
Part C - Customizing MS-DOS
11 - Terminate-and-Stay-Resident Utilities
12 - Exception Handlers
13 - Hardware Interrupt Handlers
14 - Writing MS-DOS Filters
15 - Installable Device Drivers
Part D - Directions of MS-DOS
16 - Writing Applications Upward Compatibility
17 - Windows
Part E - Programming Tools
18 - Debugging in the MS-DOS Environment
19 - Object Modules
20 - The Microsoft Object Linker
Section III - User Commands
Introduction
Contents by Functional Group
Section IV - Programming Utilities
Introduction
CREF
EXE2BIN
EXEMOD
EXEPACK
LIB
LINK
MAKE
MAPSYM
MASM
DEBUG
SYMDEB
CodeView
Section V - System Calls
Introduction
Contents by Functional Group
Appendixes
A - MS-DOS Version 3.3
B - Critical Error Codes
C - Extended Error Codes
D - ASCII Character Set and IBM Extended Character Set
E - EBCDIC Character Set
F - ANSI.SYS Key and Extended Key Codes
G - File Control Block øFCBù Structure
H - Program Segment Prefix øPSPù Structure
I - 8086/8088/80286/80386 Instruction Sets
J - Common MS-DOS Filename Extensions
K - Segment øNewù .EXE File Header Format
L - Intel Hexadecimal Object File Format
M - 8086/8088 Software Compatibility Issues
N - An Object Module Dump Utility
O - IBM PC ROM BIOS Calls
Indexes
Subject
Commands and Systems Calls