writing programs for elks

[Alfonso <a.martone@retepnet.it>]

Almost any 8086 language compiler can be used to write ELKS programs: 
nasm, dev86 (bcc or as86), Borland's Turbo C or Turbo Assembler (the 
TC 2.01 and Tasm 2.0 were made freeware on their site), etc.

I am writing a more complete article about this; I will place it here 
in some days. The only documentation I needed is found in these files:

  elks/fs/exec.c
  elks/Documentation/Text/memory.txt
  elks/Documentation/Text/bin_formats.txt

While DOS functions are accessed via INT 21h, the ELKS uses INT 80h 
(see the sources containing its definitions, e.g. strace.c)

Without using any strange tool, one can easily build an ELKS executable 
with up to 64k of code and up to 64k of data+heap (like the DOS 
"small" EXE model) just prepending a 32-byte header containing code 
and data segment sizes and other minimum information (see exec.c).

hi from south Italy!!
alf