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Article #6508Re: accessing DOS disk directory
From: coulter
Date: Thu, 01 May 1986 00:27
Date: Thu, 01 May 1986 00:27
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The only way I could find to do it was to use DOS routines to read absolute sectors off of the disk. A real pain. I had to write an assembly language routine to allow me to invoke an arbitrary interrupt and to pass register values back and forth. My PC doesn't talk to this machine yet, so I can't give you the sources here. I started with reading sector zero to find out how the disk is layed out. I recommend Norton's Programmer's Guide as a good reference. Good luck. -- Michael Coulter, ...ucbvax!hplabs!coulter
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