From:	"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <admin AT raf256 DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Win2000 and nearptr
Date:	22 May 2002 20:34:34 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in
news:9003-Wed22May2002205929+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il: 

>> __djgpp_nearptr_enable();
>> *((unsigned char*)0xB8000 + __djgpp_conventional_base +
>> ((x+y*80)*2))='A'; 
> You cannot use nearptr facilities on Windows 2000, Windows NT, and
> Windows XP (and any other descendants of the NT family): those
> versions of Windows don't allow to define a huge segment limit for
> the data descriptor that is needed for nearptrs to work.

and what is work around for this problem ? ther must be some way to acces 
0xB800:0000 in Win2000, is there ?

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Rafał 'Raf256' Maj
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