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Re: DOS Box Programming

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From: Matthew Edward Patton
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:26
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.programmer: 14-Dec-92 Re: DOS Box
Programming by Kevin Vigor@wicat.com 
> Call interrupt 2F (hex) with AX set to 1680 (hex). The call returns with
> AL set to zero on sucess and 80 on failure. N.B.: this same call works
> in a Windows 3.x DOS box and under DPMI.

Although this information is not what I am interested in (I am not the
one who requested it) my interest lies in where you found the
information about the interrupt/call information.  Is there programmer
documentation for the mdos/os2 kernel I don't know about?

Where do I get the info?


Thanks

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1. Any given program, by the time it is up and running is obsolete.
2. Any given program costs more and takes longer than planned and budgeted.
3. Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.
4. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer
   who must maintain it.
5. At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will
   find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the
   computer.

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