File i/o question.

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estrang

Joined: 02 Nov 2005
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estrang 03 Nov 2005, 21:21

Whats the diffrence between file i/o using Dos and Bios?? What do high level language use for file i/o dosbios or anything??

Im missing a lot. I shoulda started programming in assembly long time ago. Sad

03 Nov 2005, 21:21

vid
Verbosity in development

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
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vid 03 Nov 2005, 22:17

bios doesn't know about any files. it doesn't have any kind of filesystem, doesn't have file handling routines etc. it's BASIC-INPUT-OUTPUT-SYSTEM, it is purposed for hardware abstraction (but doesn't work very good as that nowadays...)

03 Nov 2005, 22:17

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