lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed) (02/23/89)
About a week ago I asked for help doing a terminate and stay resident (TSR)
program. I was having problems doing handle I/O.
The best answer came from Walt Dixon (dixon@ge-crd.arpa). He recommended
The Waite Group's MS-DOS Developer's Guide (2nd ed. 1989 Howard W. Sams & Co.).
This book has a chapter on TSR programming explaining the hooks required.
I retrofitted my program using the suggestions from this book--it now
does everything I needed it to do and handles conditions I had not
anticipated. There is more information in that chapter than could
be efficiently discussed on the net.
BTW, Walt Dixon wrote the TSR chapter of this book, and has posted
follow-ups to the discussion I started.
The book itself is almost 800 pages, mostly of a highly technical
nature. It is a refreshing change from the usual MS-DOS book that spends
300 pages verbosely explaining how to use COPY and RENAME. It is
well worth the $24.95 price; for me it was worth many times that
in solving this problem.
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- Len Reed