This is a list of errors found in the first printing of the book, Real-Time and Systems Programming for PCs by Christopher Vickery. (McGraw-Hill, 1993). I am offering a "bounty" of $1.00 to the first person who reports each error. Submit errors to me by email: vickery at babbage.cs.qc.edu. (Change at to @ in the email address.)
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Add author's affiliation under author's name: "Queens College of CUNY"
"This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Roger P. Vickery."
xi: Line 1. Change "and little discipline existed" to "and little discipline have existed"
xii: End of second paragraph. Add "Stevens (1990), " after "Rochkind (1985), ".
xiv: Second full paragraph line 11: add footnote 1 after "guaranteed to do so." Footnote text to read "Readers may obtain a copy of all code from this book as well as related files by anonymous ftp from turing.cs.qc.edu or by sending a diskette to the author at Computer Science Dept., Queens College of CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367-0904.
13: Change the entire text for footnote 2 to read "See note in the Introduction."
35: Line 18. Change "eight" to "seven".
37: Delete "the" from the phrase "but the less memory" in line 1.
38: Line 24 (command line [17]). Change "#3" to "#2".
40: Line -11. Change ":configilang386.als" to ":config:lang386.als".
41: Line -5 of Table 2.1. Change "prog:R?logon" to ":prog:r?logon".
43: Line 1. Change "Instet ad" to "Instead".
48: Line 14. Change "sd:" to ":sd:".
67: The footnote should be number 1 rather than an asterisk, and all other footnote numbers in the chapter should be incremented by one. Change the entire text for the footnote to read "See note in the Introduction."
69: Insert "3.5." before each digit in brackets on this page. Sentence two of the first full paragraph thus starts "Lines [3.5.1] and [3.5.2] of the figure use the editor …" There are six changes in this paragraph and six changes in Figure 3.5.
73: Change [3] to [3.5.3] two places in lines 4-5 from bottom of the page.
77: Change [3] to [1] at the end of para 2 of section 3.4.3.
77: Para 3 of section 3.4.3. "Aedit running on some early versions of DOS does not support this form of command line. If you try it, only hellormx.lst will be loaded for editing and you will have to use the command sequence other, quit, init to load hellormx.plm into …"
81: Top of page. Change [4] to [3.5.4]. Delete the sentence, "Note that this is the same [4] as in Figure 3.5."
81: Change [5] to [2] and [6] to [3] on lines 11 and 15 respectively.
81: Line 11. Change "iRMX<" to "iRMX>".
86: Line -1. Change "consants" to "constants".
90: Change [6] to [4] and [7] to [5] on lines 12 and 15 respectively.
91: Line 4. Change "l$endif" to "$endif". Better yet, substitute the following code for the listing that starts at the end of page 90:
; ESUBMIT version of "compile,load,go" $reset eok $reset quit $ifexist %0.plm run86 -fixplm /intel/bin/plm386.exe %0.plm compact debug $if not commandexcep = eok $set quit $endif $endif $ifexist %1.plm run86 -fixplm /intel/bin/plm386.exe %1.plm compact debug $if not commandexcep = eok $set quit $endif $endif $ifexist %2.plm run86 -fixplm /intel/bin/plm386.exe %2.plm compact debug $if not commandexcep = eok $set quit $endif $endif $if not quit run86 /intel/bin/bnd386.exe %0.obj, & $ifexist %1.obj %1.obj, & $endif $ifexist %2.obj %2.obj, & $endif :sd:rmx386/lib/rmxifc32.lib rc(dm(0,0FFFFFFFFh)) ss(stack(8192)) & rn(code32 to code) $endif
Then change the last sentence before the listing on page 90 from "either one or two" to "up to three".
92: Change [8] to [6] and [9] to [7] on lines 21 and 37 respectively.
93: Change [10] to [8] on line 25.
98: Change [11] to [9] on line 34.
99: Change [12] to [10], [13] to [11], and [14] to [12] on lines 6, 8, and 11 respectively. Change [12] to [10] and [13] to [11] on line 7. Change (agr[Q]) to (argv[0]) on line 14.
100: Line 4. Change [15] to [13].
130: Change "#pragma noalign (dosub)" to "#pragma fixedparams (dosub)" in both Fig. 4.14 and Fig. 4.15. Change "Fig. 4.10" to "Fig. 4.9" in the caption for Fig. 4.15. Change "extern unsigned char *prompt;" to "extern unsigned char prompt[];" in Fig 4.15.
154: Add "Reprinted by permission of Intel Corporation, Intel Corp. 1989." to the caption for Figure 5.5.
165: Line 25. Change "VM886" to "VM86".
208: Line 8. Change "exists" to "exits".
226: Line 17. Change "certain are 16-bit" to "certain 16-bit".
268: Last line before the list of steps. Change "… performed from with an application …" to "… performed from within an application …"
296: Delete lines 14-15.
315: Last line of the page. The first argument to rqgetglobaltime() is a pointer to a SETTIMESTRUCT; see the prototype for rqsetglobaltime() at the top of the next page.
316: Line 20. Change "… impact real-time perfoance …" to "… impact real-time performance …"
241: Line 13 from the bottom. Change "To handle situations in which a task must to have …" to "To handle situations in which a task must have …"
343: Line 8. Do not italicize the word "system."
350: A reader (Rob Macklin) reports that the utility procedures BeginLongTermpOp() and EndLongTermOp() are not available in ldd.lib, as implied in the text. They are available only in the configurable versions of iRMX.
467-468: The LSAP ID for RAWEDL is decimal 99, not hexadecimal, according to a reader (Joe Wasco).
479: Line 19. Should read char far * a_string="Hello, World!\n\r$"; Change four more occurrences of a'string to a_string on this page. Change FP'sEG to FP_SEG six lines from the bottom of the page.
480: Figure 12.1 is missing. Here it is:
/***> hellodos.c <**************************************************
*
* iRMX program to display "Hello, World!" by invoking a DOS system
* call to print a string.
*
********************************************************************/
#include <rmxc.h>
#define NULL (void far *) 0
#define TSRCONTEXT 0
#define NONE 0
#define TRUE 1
#define DS_DX (BYTE) 2
#define toRMX (BYTE) 3
#define toDOS (BYTE) 4
#define threeSeconds (WORD) 300
extern BYTE
rqealtsysreq (BYTE, WORD far *);
int
main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
BYTE helloWorld[] = "Hello, World!\r\n$";
DOS_DATA_STRUCT dosRegisters;
BYTE consoleCode;
WORD Status;
dosRegisters.x.int_num = 0x21;
dosRegisters.x.tsr_flags = TSRCONTEXT;
dosRegisters.x.reg_ax = 0x0900;
dosRegisters.x.xfer_data = TRUE;
dosRegisters.x.src1_xfer_pair = DS_DX;
dosRegisters.x.src2_xfer_pair = NONE;
dosRegisters.x.dest1_xfer_pair = NONE;
dosRegisters.x.dest2_xfer_pair = NONE;
dosRegisters.x.src_ptr_1 = helloWorld;
dosRegisters.x.src_count_1 = sizeof (helloWorld);
consoleCode = rqealtsysreq (toDOS, &Status);
rqedosrequest (&dosRegisters, threeSeconds, &Status);
consoleCode = rqealtsysreq (toRMX, &Status);
rqexitiojob ((WORD) 0, NULL, &Status);
}
531: Line 13. Change "<esc]>" to "<esc>]"
543: Line 19. Change "<\Z" to "<^Z>"
There are many incorrect insertions of a slash between the capital letters I and O throughout the Index.
584: Change BI/OS to BIOS four places, and cancelI/O() to cancelIO() one time.
586: Change BI/OS to BIOS one time, EI/OS to EIOS one time, and I/ORS to IORS one time.
588: Change BI/OS to BIOS two times.
589: Change BI/OS to BIOS one time and finishI/O() to finishIO() one time.
590: Change initializeI/O() to initializeIO() one time, BI/OS to BIOS one time, EI/OS to EIOS three times, and I/ORS to IORS one time.
596: Change EI/OS to EIOS one time
600: Change EI/OS to EIOS two times, VERSI/ON to VERSION one time, BI/OS to BIOS one time, I/ORS to IORS one time, and queueI/O() to queueIO() one time.
601: Change BI/OS to BIOS one time and EI/OS to EIOS one time.
602: Change BI/OS to BIOS one time. Change systeminitializeI/O to systeminitializeIO one time.
603: Lines 15-18 change I/O() to IO() 4 times. Change BI/OS to BIOS one time, VERSI/ON to VERSION one time.
585: Second column, line 11. Change CICS to CISC.
586: First column, line 27. Change the page number from 560 to 562.
586: First column, line 28. Change "mailboxes" to "mailbox." Add pages 404-406 for deletion mailbox.
596: Second column, line -5. Change R?CU@YRR$APP to R?CURR$APP
597: First column, line 7. Change CICS to CISC.
597: Second column, -10. The list of pages for rqcatalogobject() should be 206, 211, 213, and 560.
598: Second column, line 17. Change the page number from 541 to 542.