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From: Jason <jasonn85 AT mindspring DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Another stupid question about "far"
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:52:47 -0500
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I know that DJGPP doesn't support the keyword "far" and I know the DJ
Delorie posted some sort of zip file that would allow this but I can't
find it now that I need it :-(

I have a program that reads the header of a PCX file into a struct that
has a serperate variable for every part of the header.  The only way I
know how to read this would be to do something like this:

char far *temp = (char far *)image->header;

for (index=0; index<128; index++)
  { temp[i] = getc(pcxfile); }

But I can't do that without far pointers.  Someone please tell me
another way to read the header into a struct because I am stumped.

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