Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:44:00 -0700
From:	Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT org>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: int 21h and assembler
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:03:11AM +0000, Patrick Klos wrote:
> How do you mean "protect the service routine in memory"??  I've written
> a hundred interrupt handlers, but I've never had to "protect" any memory.
> Or is this interrupt handler part of a TSR rather then an application?

I suspect he's referring to locking the memory. If you haven't had to do this,
you've been both very lucky and never used your programs under cwsdpmi (it
will kill an unlocked program for safety's sake).

Bill
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Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak

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