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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT brother DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit int?  segment-offset pointers? and biosdisk.c
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:41:09 +0100 (CET)
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Jim Michaels <jmichae3REMOVE AT thispleaseyahoo DOT com> wrote:
> as for the replacement for biosdisk.c, I am running into troubles.  it 
> seems everything revolves around the Disk Packet, which is a structure 
> of size 16 bytes.

> the problem is, the go32 libraries seem (?) to only allow allocation and 
> use of 1 block of dos memory at a time.  I need 2: 1 for the Disk 
> Packet, and 1 for the disk buffer the Disk Packet points to...

If the total size of buffer space needed is less than the transfer
buffer, use different parts of the transfer buffer for the different
blocks of memory.


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MartinS