Category : Files from Magazines
Archive   : PJ83.ZIP
Filename : README8.BAK

The source code files in this group are from Programmer's
Journal, Volume 8.3, May/June 1990. The files are identical
to those published in the magazine, except where noted,
and OBJ and EXE files have been added.

The copyrights are held by the programs'authors, as noted in the
files. All other rights are reserved by Oakley Publishing Company,
1990. No one may commercially distribute these files. Every effort
has been made to assure that the program files are correct and
complete. No guarantee, express or implied, is offered as to the
correctness of the files, nor to the fitness of the programs for
any purpose whatsoever.

The files from Volume 8.3 are:


Code from Michael Abrash's article "What goes around"
Installment 18, in which Michael starts to work his
VGA circle-drawing magic on the vastly more useful
ellipse.

ellips1.c Drawing ellipses - version 1
ellips2.c Drawing ellipses using EGA mode 10h
ellips3.c Drawing ellipses using VGA mode 12h
ellips4.c New drawellipse routine for ellips1.c (Listing 1)


Code from Daniel E. Greenberg's article "Reentering
the DOS shell" A detailed exploration of the
undocumented INT 2EH entry to the DOS shell-
COMMAND.COM and an XCALL utility to use these
features

lastmin.doc Comparison of two portions of code
xcall.asm Complete source for XCALL.COM
xcall.com Latest version of executable


Code from William S. Hall's article "Order from
Chaos" Bill Hall uses a cellular
automaton as a vehicle to demonstrate graphics
programming using Windows GDI

wcldlg.h Dialog constants
wincel make file for WINCEL.EXE
wincel.c Resident segment code
wincel.def Definitions file
wincel.dlg Dialog boxes for WINCEL
wincel.exe WINCEL executable
wincel.h Header file for the WINCEL (declares global variables)
wincel.obj Object code for WINCEL.C
wincel.rc Source Resource file for WINCEL.EXE
wincel.res Compiled resource file for WINCEL.EXE
wincelms.c Miscellaneous code
wincelms.obj Object code for WINCELMS.C
wincelnt.c Initialization code discarded after use
wincelnt.obj Object code for WINCELNT.C


Code from Chip Little's article "Mouse Messages"
Efficient processing of mouse input in OS/2
Presentation Manager applications.

hittest Make file for HITTTEST.EXE
hittest.c Source for HITTEST
hittest.def Definitions for HITTEST
hittest.exe OS/2 Executable file
hittest.obj Compiled hittest.c


Code from Larry Smith's article "Accessing
High Memory" Exploring the extended-memory
block-move features of AT-class machines

himem.asm Extended memory TSR for a TSR 2100 printer
bios.asm Extending the AT BIOS to turn off gate 20
bios.com may not work with packed EXE's


Code from John Otken's article "Advanced
segmentation" John explains 80x86 segmentation
directives, how to use segments wisely in
your assembly language programming, along
with advanced run-time table building
techniques.

asm.inc Basic include file
lnktbl1.asm Link time Table Building (listing 1)
lnktbl2.asm CMD_DAT segment (listing 2)
lnktbl3.asm Link time code (listing 3
lnktbl4.asm Terminate code (listing 4)
lnktbl5.asm (listing 5)


Code from Tom Swan's article "Let's
List again" Tom continues work on his
"View Anything" file viewer by creating
some useful list and selection routines
for files and directories using the object-
oriented extensions in Turbo Pascal.

dirtest.exe DIRTEST executable
dirtest.pas DIRTEST program in Turbo Pascal (ver 5.5)
test1.exe TEST1 executable
test1.pas TEST1 program
test2.exe TEST2 executable
test2.pas TEST2 program
ucmds.pas command object definitions
ucmds.tpu compiled command object unit
ufiles.pas fileObj definition
ufiles.tpu compiled fileObj unit
uprogram.pas "run" procedure
uprogram.tpu compiled run procedure unit
uselect.pas selection objects definition
uselect.tpu compiled selection unit
ustritem.pas string item object definition
ustritem.tpu compiled string item unit
udir.pas fileItem and directory object definitions
udir.tpu compiled udir unit
uhelp.pas helpObj object definition
uhelp.tpu compiled uhelp unit
uitem.pas item object definition
uitem.tpu compiled uitem unit
ukeys.pas keyboard input unit
ukeys.tpu compiled ukeys unit
ulist.pas list object definition
ulist.tpu compiled ulist unit
umenu.pas menu object definition
umenu.tpu compiled umenu unit
unew.pas newObj definition
unew.tpu compiled unew unti
uscreen.pas screen (windows) unit
uscreen.tpu compiled uscreen unit


Code from John Otken's article
"386 Debugging"

386.mak Make file
386_asm.asm Test 386 stack trap for assembly language
386_c.c Test program for debugging
386_msc.asm test 386 stack trap for Microsoft C
386_trap.asm 386 memory protection stack fault trap


Code from the letters to the editor.

Code from B.H. Robinson's letter

std_tst.c Listing of C function to test whether
STDIN or STDOUT has been redirected.
ioctlt.c Listing of program to call and test the std_tst function.
ioctlt.exe Executable IOCTLT program.


Code from Jan Fertig's letter

library.prm Versimake file to update a library of ASM routines


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