Advanced Ms Dos

This bestselling guide shows programmers how to fully access the hidden power of MS-DOS. It covers screen, keyboard, file, and record access; the internal structure of MS-DOS disks; how to create installable device drivers and filters to extend MS-DOS and much more.

This newly updated and expanded volume contains detailed, thorough and accurate information on MS-DOS written for advanced-level programmers of all environments. Contains an index and appendixes.

Discusses the structure of MS-DOS application programs and programming tools and looks at peripheral devices, file management, interrupt handlers, and filters

Microsoft's official reference to its venerable and omnipresent operating system. The heart of the volume is a comprehensive 280-page reference to the MS-DOS system calls. The book also contains chapters on the file system, character I/O, program management, national language support, and device drivers.