Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/19/03:30:21
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Arthur wrote:
> What I did mean was that it didn't explain what DPMI _was_, not how to
> access it.
That section isn't about DPMI, it describes how to call real-mode
services. You don'ty need to know about DPMI to understand what's
explained there.
> 18.4 of the FAQ tells you about it but generally assumes that you
> know about the inner workings of the PC, what bits you can access at what
> time, and that you generally know what you are doing.
That's correct, this section assumes prior knowledge in calling
DOS/BIOS interrupts. If you lack that background, you will need to
find good references elsewhere. Any book on DOS system programming
should be a good beginning. For example, try "The Indispensible PC
Hardware Book", 2nd edition, by Hans-Peter Messmer (Addison-Wesley).
Another valuable source of reference material is the monumental Ralf
Brown's Interrupt List, available as interNN?.zip from SimTel.NET
mirrors in the pub/simtelnet/msdos/info directory (NN is the version
number).
> Can't think of anything specific to DJGPP at the moment. Perhaps a framed
> version so that you have an index down the left hand side :^)
This is a question of what tool do you use to browse it. The Info
reader has this feature built-in.
> Tell you what, though (and this is to everyone) : There is nothing worse
> than having a tutorial which cannot be downloaded and read offline.
This is already solved for you. If you download the v2/faq210b.zip
file, you will find inside it the FAQ in 3 formats: plain ASCII, HTML,
and Info. So you can (and should, IMHO) browse the FAQ locally,
either with your favorite Web browser, or with any Info reader you
like (RHIDE and Emacs have one built into them, and there's a
stand-alone Info reader in the v2gnu/txi390b.zip package).
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