From:	Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Storing text screens in protected mode?
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:03:48 -0500
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One of my favorite real mode tricks is to have my text screens stored in
an integer array.  Reletively simple to do in real mode--just set SI to
point to the screen buffer, DI to my array, CX to the buffer size and
"rep stosw" it over.  This was a very important trick on 8088
systems--though it's less important now.

Question--is it possible to get the base address of the screen buffer in
protected mode or is it necessary to go back to real mode to do this

--
Charles Krug, Jr.

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