mitch@well.UUCP (Mitchell Waite) (05/02/87)
MS-DOS PAPERS PROPOSAL - MAY 1, 1987 (LAST POSTING NOV 11, 1986) The Waite Group, a San Francisco based computer book developer, is looking for contributing authors for a new book on MS-DOS, titled MS-DOS PAPERS. This is a second call for writers for MS-DOS PAPERS. The MS-DOS PAPERS will be a collection of learning tutorials, much like Waite Group's UNIX PAPERS (to be published June 1987). MS-DOS PAPERS will provide insightful information on the MS-DOS operating system, revealing the more hidden and obscure truths about MS-DOS in an interesting, easy to read Waite Group format. It's contributed nature allows us to include subjects that might not support a separate book, as well as subjects that are on the cutting edge of MS-DOS technology. The audience level is intermediate to advanced programmers, students, engineers, business people, and anyone who wants the most up to date information about this popular operating system. Examples are given in both MS-C 4.0 and MASM. The book consists of TUTORIALS on topics that have never been adequately discussed in the literature. These include inside BIOS, tips and undocumented secrets, terminate and stay resident programming, advanced MASM, debugging, new OS/2 features for MS-DOS programmers, and much more. THE MS-DOS PAPERS OUTLINE Follow is the current outline for the book. If you find any of these appealing, let us know. We will send you a more detailed proposal, our author terms letter and our style guide. If you have other suggestions for topics we have missed you think are important, we'd like to hear them. Mitchell Waite Development Editor BIX: mwaite THE WELL: mitch usenet: {lll-lcc, hplabs, glacier}!well!mitch 1. UNDERSTANDING MS-DOS DEVICE DRIVERS 2. WRITING DEVICE DRIVERS IN C 3. SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN MICROSOFT C 4. WRITING TSR PROGRAMS 5. ADVANCED TSR PROGRAMS 6. ENHANCING MS-DOS WITH ADD ON PACKAGES 7. ADVANCED ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE USING MASM 8. UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES OF MS-DOS 9. EMS AND MS-DOS 10. DEVELOPING A UNIX SHELL FOR MS-DOS 11. DEVELOPERS GUIDE TO DOS 3.3 12. DEBUGGING MS-DOS 13. INSIDE THE CHOP SUEY ROMS 14. WRITING PROTECTED MODE PROGRAMS FOR THE 286 15. DEVELOPERS GUIDE TO OS/2 16. PROGRAMMING WITH MS-WINDOWS 17. MS-DOS COPY PROTECTION TECHNIQUES 18. INSIDE BIOS 19. MS-DOS and the EGA AND VGA 20. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MS-DOS - WHAT IS RIGHT WITH MS-DOS 21. SECURITY UNDER MS-DOS 22. NETWORKING MS-DOS 23. OS/2 AND MS-DOS ABOUT THE WAITE GROUP The Waite Group has produced over 80 computer titles over the last 10 years, and is known for its high quality titles on MS-DOS, C and UNIX. Waite Group's notable MS-DOS titles includes: MS-DOS Bible, Discovering MS-DOS, MS-DOS Developer's Guide, Understanding MS-DOS and Tricks of the MS-DOS Masters. The Waite Group, Inc. 3220 Sacramento Street San Francisco CA 94115 (415) 929-7088
ddl@husc6.UUCP (Dan Lanciani) (05/03/87)
In article <2978@well.UUCP>, mitch@well.UUCP (Mitchell Waite) writes: > > > MS-DOS PAPERS PROPOSAL - MAY 1, 1987 (LAST POSTING NOV 11, 1986) > > Follow is the current outline for the book. If you find any of these > appealing, let us know. We will send you a more detailed proposal, our > author terms letter and our style guide. If you have other suggestions for > topics we have missed you think are important, we'd like to hear them. I responded to the "first" call and received no detailed proposal, no author terms letter, and no style guide. Instead I received a phone call asking me to submit an outline and writing samples. The enthusiastic caller informed me that I could have the detailed proposal, author terms letter, and style guide as soon as I sent the outline and writing samples. Although it seemed a little strange to write an outline without the detailed proposal, I sent the requested materials. I have heard nothing since, even though I have written again inquiring the Waite Group's intentions. Dan Lanciani ddl@harvard.*
mitch@well.UUCP (Mitchell Waite) (05/17/87)
Don I am not sure who talked to you but we have not received any of the materails you say you sent. We usually ask potential contributors to tell us what subjects they are interested in from the posted list of chapters. If the chapter isn't taken we send a detailed proposal. We also ask for some indication that the contributor can indeed write about the subject they are interested in. An outline or sample of writing is not unusual for publishers to request and for writers to submit. I have not received any email from you even though my name and uucp address are on the initial posting, but perhaps it never got through? Lets talk by tele phone or email and not bother the net with this.
ddl@husc6.UUCP (Dan Lanciani) (05/18/87)
In article <3080@well.UUCP>, mitch@well.UUCP (Mitchell Waite) writes: > Don I am not sure who talked to you but we have not received any of the That's "Dan" > materails you say you sent. We usually ask potential contributors to Interesting, then, that someone claiming to represent you called and was able to mention the subject that I had described in my letter. In any case, it seems strange to refuse to send the proposal before receiving the outline. (Yes, I did ask specifically.) > tell us what subjects they are interested in from the posted list of > chapters. If the chapter isn't taken we send a detailed proposal. We also This is what your initial posting indicated and that is what I did. My letter indicated the subject in which I was interested. However, instead of a detailed proposal, I received the aforementioned phone call. > ask for some indication that the contributor can indeed write about the > subject they are interested in. An outline or sample of writing is not > unusual for publishers to request and for writers to submit. I have not > received any email from you even though my name and uucp address are on My initial letter, the requested materials (outline and sample writing), and a final letter of inquiry were sent by real, paper, U. S. mail, not by email. Since none of them were returned, I have some reason to believe they reached their destination. > the initial posting, but perhaps it never got through? Lets talk by tele > phone or email and not bother the net with this. My posting was not an attempt to communicate with you, but was intended for the general readership. Your response, on the other hand, could have been sent by electronic mail. (My email address is also available from my postings.) Moreover, my U. S. mail address is available from the letters I sent to you. I must assume that the latter was readable since someone was able to use it to obtain my phone number. Dan Lanciani J8ska P Ar Ar