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- From: nfa031@hp1.uni-rostock.de (Ingo Warnke)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Using xms for data storage/retrieval
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- Date: 11 Jan 1996 17:39:57 GMT
- Organization: University of Rostock (Germany)
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- Boon Weng Yeong (bwyeong@perth.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
- : Is there a simple way of manipulating xms memory?
-
- : I mean instead of using the cumbersome movememblock function, is
- : there a more elegant way of referencing a xms block for
- : storage/retrieval of data?
-
- Unless you can make your own code running in protected mode, there is
- no way I see. BTW, what is "cumbersome" about the movememblock function?
- It works basically like file I/O with DOS, you just do not pass the infor-
- mation in registers but in a memory structure.
-
- Ingo Warnke
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