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Dos internals chappell and geoff chappell and rochester. Dos internals is the definitive guide for showing advanced dos programmers how to exploit the full potential of dos, and is undoubtedly the most wellresearched, meticulous coverage of dos memory and disk management ever published. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. In dos internals, geoff chappell says that this flag indicates the. Dos internals is the most detailed description ever written of how dos memory and disk management. This directory has become the sole repository for corrections and updates. We cannot guarantee that dos internals book is in the library. Hooking existing and adding new software interrupts is a holdover from the bad old dos days, and about as useful. The partition type or partition id in a partitions entry in the partition table inside a master boot record mbr is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions e. By understanding the inner workings of dos 5 and 6 and the changes made from earlier versions, ambitious programmers will be better able to write programs that take full advantage of dos services.
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