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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Re: Peek and Poke in Visual Basic 1.0 ???
- References: <54540003@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> <aXcXwB1w165w@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
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- Organization: UIUC SCS
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:23:37 GMT
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- In article <aXcXwB1w165w@salzo.Cary.NC.US> charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Jeff Cogswell) writes:
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- >galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) writes:
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- >> In comp.windows.ms.programmer, harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (
- >>
- >> >I have just bought Visual Basic 1.0 standard edition and wanted
- >> >to program a special hardware board inside the PC with it....
- >> > **stuff deleted **
- >>
- >> Stefan,
- >> It is possible, but not for the faint-of-heart. On CompuServe (and probably
- >> a good number of ftp sites as well) in the MSBASIC forum VB library the file
- >> is called "inout.zip". The reason MS doesn't include this functionality in
- >> VB 1.0 or 2.0 is that it is EXCEPTIONALLY EASY to corrupt the Windows
- >> environment by directly writing to hardware - definitely not for the average
- >> software hacker (therefore MS limited their liability).
-
- >Always be careful when using peek & poke; [they remap locations in
- protected mode]
-
- Yes, but is what he wants "peek and poke" or "in and out". In and out
- do NOT change locations in protected mode. I use them all the time;
- no problem. (But not using vbasic).
-
- Doug McDonald
-