Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 13:34:57 EDT From: skr5 AT cornell DOT edu (Steven K. Rossi) Reply-To: skr5 AT cornell DOT edu (Steven K. Rossi) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: dosmemget and dosmemput >I think dosmemget/put use byte reads to access this memory. Some >shared memory devices require word accesses to work properly; this >might be your problem. Try looking at the functions in sys/farptr.h >and trying one of them to do word accesses and see if the problem >goes away. Good luck. Indeed this was the problem! I tried the _farnspeekw and _farnspokew functions and they solved all of my problems. Thanks for all the responses! Steve _____________________________________________________________________ Steven K. Rossi skr5 AT cornell DOT edu 319 Highland Rd. #7A Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 M.Eng. Electrical Engineering http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/srossi/srossi.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Get WARPED today! ... OS/2 Warp!