Re: [Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-06 Thread Bret Johnson
A well-written packet driver would do this all automatically for you and you wouldn't need to select an Interrupt number yourself. That is, if INT 0x60 wasn't already used (all zeroes in the Interrupt Vector Table or pointing at an IRET) it would automatically select 0x60. If 0x60 was used,

Re: [Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi David, > I'm wanting to set up a packet driver, but it asks for which packet int > number to use. From the packet driver specification, I see this is > supposed to be between 0x60 and 0x80, but how can I tell if any of these > are already taken? As the introduction for writing packet

Re: [Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-04 Thread David McMackins
Can't hurt to have. I'll probably translate it to C. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 08/04/2018 10:53

Re: [Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-04 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I wrote a program years ago which probes the 16-bit interrupt dispatch table under DOS and saves the addresses of all 256 handlers to a file you specify. If you like, I can dig up the old VB source. Let me know. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On August 4,

[Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-04 Thread David McMackins
I'm wanting to set up a packet driver, but it asks for which packet int number to use. From the packet driver specification, I see this is supposed to be between 0x60 and 0x80, but how can I tell if any of these are already taken? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member,