Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:18:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
Cc: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Another way to access VGA memory
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Leath Muller wrote:

> Using near pointers, you never have to worry about that. And I have
> never written a program where the __djgpp_conventional_base changes... 
> could someone explain to me a situation where it does? I have never
> encountered this when only running my application (I do just about 
> everything under Win95 too... :)

It can only change when you call certain library functions, and even then 
it depends on the DPMI provider.  The FAQ has some more on this issue in 
section 18.6.