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From: "Gareth Williams" <ghw2002tii AT hotmail DOT com>
To: prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Setting a variable's selector? - Clarification - I hope.
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:26:44 CST
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>The pointer you pass can be the address of the transfer buffer. Why would
>you want to go for the DOS memory allocation which can be a little
>cumbersome? And after the call, you can just copy the info. in the transfer
>buffer and parse it, right?

Yep, you are right.  I had forgotten about the tb until Eli reminded me.  
Used it, it works well.  As you said, much easier than going through the 
hassle of Dos mem allocation.

Gareth.

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