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From: "Hammy" <darren AT grayce DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: nearptr enabled?
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 01:52:01 +0100
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i would do it a safe way, but I dont understand it.  Besides, I hear it was
slower using the farpokey things

Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote in message
news:BypP3.553$zO DOT 17217 AT dfiatx1-snr1 DOT gtei DOT net...
>
> Hammy <darren AT grayce DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
> news:7ukvol$a00$1 AT news5 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk...
> > im using some code that use nearptrs? I think it
> > does anyway, yet i can find any reference to the
> > djgpp_nearptr_enable thing? so, does it mean it is
> > using nearptrs?  I access the videoram with a regular ptr
> >
> > video[where]=col
>
> That's nearptr. If you use this hack, you must be *very*
> careful not to step on another program's memory.
>
> --
> Damian Yerrick
> CM 398, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
> 5500 Wabash Ave
> Terre Haute, IN 47803
> http://come.to/yerrick
>
>


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