Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!dartvax!kvetter From: kvetter@dartvax.UUCP (Keith Vetter) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Non-pausing disk IO Message-ID: <3303@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 18:36:34 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3303 Posted: Thu Jun 27 18:36:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:02:11 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 11 I'm new to using a PC and am writing an application where it would be nice to do disk IO without pausing. [Set aside a buffer area, initiate the read and return control and get interrupted when a character is ready to be read.] I don't know enough of the PC interrupts yet to do this. Can someone else out there enlighten me? Thanks Keith Vetter Dartmouth Colleget