From: luser...@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, May 24, 2021 at 1:22:49 AM UTC-5, luser...@nospicedham.gmail.com   
   wrote:   
   > On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 3:48:21 PM UTC-5, luser...@nospicedham.gmail.com   
   wrote:   
   > > Hello all,   
   > >   
   > > I'm planning to resume work on my partly written 8086 emulator after a   
   > > long hiatus. I want to add the ability to read a file, but I'm having some   
   > > difficulty   
   > [...]   
   > > Is there a good resource to understand how this all should work?   
   > I suppose this isn't really related to assembly language. I've ordered Peter   
   Norton's   
   > Guide to the IBM PC. I guess I'll post in comp.os.msdos.programmer if I run   
   into   
   > trouble.   
      
   For posterity, Norton's Guide really seems to be the perfect book to learn all   
   about   
   this stuff. It looks like I want to bypass DOS 1.0 stuff, too, and go straight   
   for the DOS 2.0   
   additions to have a file handle and less fiddly business.   
      
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