Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!rde From: rde@ukc.UUCP (R.D.Eager) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: DOS 2.x question Message-ID: <5287@ukc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 23:12:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.5287 Posted: Thu Jul 4 23:12:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:41:51 EDT References: <776@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Reply-To: rde@ukc.UUCP (Bob Eager) Distribution: net Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK Lines: 26 I haven't seen a great deal on the subject, but two comments may be of interest: * The documentation given to OEMs looks only slightly better than that given to the poor end user * One book which I can recommend (although it doesn't go as far as some of the net articles) is the "IBM PC-DOS Handbook", by Richard Allen King (published by Sybex) I find it depressing that a firm like Microsoft, having obtained a stranglehold on the marketplace (more by accident than design it seems) produce such awful documentation. The latest MASM documentation is an improvement, but for example the MSDOS Programmers Manual is a disaster. Are you listening Microsoft? Give me the dope and let me write your manual for you..... -- Bob Eager rde@ukc.UUCP rde@ukc ...!mcvax!ukc!rde Phone: +44 227 66822 ext 7589