Date:	Sun, 2 Nov 1997 14:58:46 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"Mahadevan R." <mdevan AT md2 DOT vsnl DOT net DOT in>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Int 0x10 and pointers
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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Mahadevan R. wrote:

> I'm trying to load an EGA/VGA text font using Int 0x10/AX=0x1110.
> However, this call requires a pointer to the font data in ES:BP.  The
> int86() fn. docs does not list this BIOS fn. as "supported", and I don't
> know how to do this with __dpmi_int() (not sure whether this is possible
> -- is it?).  What do I do now ?

A full working example of code that does similar things is in the
DJGPP library sources (file name conio.c).  It is used to switch the
display to 28- and 40-line modes.

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