From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Interrupts
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 19:19:31 -0500
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Mark wrote:
> 
> How do I call the interrupt the equivalent of(tasm):
> mov ah, 5h
> int 16h
> 
> I have heard that you need to use something like __dpmi_int but I don't
> really know how to do it.

In DJGPP, that assembly would translate to the following C code:

#include <dpmi.h>

/*...*/
    __dpmi_regs regs;
    regs.h.ah = 0x5;
    __dpmi_int( 0x16, &regs );

The __dpmi_* functions are described in the online libc documentation
("info libc alpha __dpmi_int", et. al.).

hth

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