From:	faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de (Dirk Färber)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	xms-memory
Date:	25 Jan 1999 10:39:20 GMT
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Hi,

does anyone knows how to access the xms-memory?

I just got that problem in pascal and there're two major 
disadvantages:
 1. The minimum xms-block-size is 1kB.
 2. The xms-block is not addressable with a pointer. Instead
    of that you must have a memory-block free in the lower 
    memory (<640kB) and copy the xms-block to that memory 
    with a special function (emm-access).
    Than you can modify it and copy it back.

Does djgpp offers advantagous concepts?

TIA,
 Dirk

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