IBM Disk Operating System Technical Reference.pdf

IBM Disk Operating System Technical Reference. This book contains technical reference information for programmers about the IBM DOS 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1, (and MS-DOS equivalents).

Contents:

Chapter 1. Contains general technical information about DOS.
Chapter 2. Contains detailed information about device drivers.
Chapter 3. Contains detailed information about using extended screen and keyboard functions to control cursor positioning and to redefine keyboard keys.
Chapter 4. Contains notes and considerations for proper file management.
Chapter 5. Describes allocation of space on disk.
Chapter 6. Describes the system interrupts and function calls.
Chapter 7. Describes control blocks and work areas, including a memory map, program segment prefix, and file control block.
Chapter 8. Explains how to execute commands from within an application.
Chapter 9. Contains technical information about DOS support of fixed disks.
Chapter 10. Contains detailed information about .EXE file structure.
Chapter 11. Contains information about DOS memory management.