From:	mohan AT stealth DOT net (Mohan Khurana)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Far Pointers in Protected Mode
Date:	Sun, 20 Oct 1996 03:33:40 GMT
Organization:	Stealth Communications, NYC.
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Lets say I wanted to fill an area of the screen.  Under something like
Borland C, I would just use 

memset(0xA000, 15, 0xffff)

right?

This doesn't seem to work in DJGPP.  I was thinking about setting each
pixel individually in a for loop using _farnspokeb, but this is slow.
Is there a better way?  I want to set chunks of data to a certain
value.  I checked farptr.h, but there wasn't really much documentation
in the file.  I also checked the info documentation and the
information about far pointers, but the information on the individual
functions wasn't very helpful.

Thanks to all who help.

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