Hello Richard, C in general and Open Watcom in particular are good choices for DOS programming. The other free options supporting more recent C versions are GCC as part of DJGPP targeting 32-bit DPMI, and, despite being somewhat experimental, IA16-GCC, a port of GCC for the DOS 16-bit real mode target.
Not exactly with examples, but for documentation specific to Open Watcom I recommend their PDFs and / or the printed manuals. At least the Open Watcom C Language Reference (it is basically ANSI C with some but not all features of C99 and implementation specific addons) and the programmers guide would be a good idea to have a look at after aquiring some knowledge of the C language. https://openwatcom.org/ftp/manuals/current/ I created books from all their PDFs by myself. You may get them via Lulu for a reasonable price (I make no money from it). Until now I only made the Language Reference book public, but if someone is interested, I may make the other ones available too. https://www.lulu.com/shop/the-open-watcom-contributors-and-bernd-b%C3%B6ckmann/open-watcom-c-language-reference/paperback/product-vpjwd9.html?page=1&pageSize=4 Greetings, Bernd > Am 23.05.2024 um 03:26 schrieb Richard Stoltenberg via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > Greetings: > I got my program to compile under watcom 1.9 but it has errors. Not looking > for help directly, but good programming documentation. Does anyone have any > good free/paid programming books with examples? found: The ANSI C > Programming Language > by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie (not cheap) > and Ansi C Programming Concept Kindle Edition > by Sivarasan R (Author) cheaper > > is Ansi-C the right year compiler and language? wasn't clear from a view of > your youtube videos and website, I enjoy. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
