Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 1/5 Previous Document: Next Document: See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge No, it is for all programmers who want to share information about programming in MS-DOS and DOS replacements like 4DOS. Programs and questions are also posted in Pascal, assembly, and other languages (including MS-DOS batch programming). Why does the newsgroup seem to be so C-oriented sometimes? There are two reasons. First, comp.lang.c and comp.lang.pascal have evolved in different directions. Comp.lang.pascal has split into discussions about individual Pascal compilers. comp.lang.pascal.borland welcomes discussion specific to Turbo Pascal, and the other new groups likewise. Turbo Pascal programmers tend to find DOS questions welcomed in comp.lang.pascal.borland, so that comp.os.msdos.programmer gets less of the "DOS in Turbo Pascal" traffic. On the other hand, comp.lang.c has stayed closer to talking only about the C language, and vendor-specific or operating-system-specific questions are not welcome. This tends to push questions about disks, DOS file structure, video, the keyboard, TSRs, etc. to comp.os.msdos.programmer even when those programs are written in C. This FAQ is definitely C-oriented, not because that's necessarily best but because I tried to stick to what I could verify personally. As a C programmer (with some assembler), I could most carefully verify solutions in C or assembler. I felt that short, clear programs could be published in just one language and programmers could translate them into their languages of choice. But the FAQ list also contains several long programs written only in C; this is a defect with no obvious remedy. Most answers that point to source code at archive sites include both C- and Pascal- language source when available. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 1/5 Previous Document: Next Document: Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jeffrey@carlyle.org (Jeffrey Carlyle)
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