From: brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Detecting Windows and Windows directory from DOS
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:35:19 -0500
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Said richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com (Richard Dawe) in 
comp.os.msdos.programmer:
>Hello.
>
>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> The way to access the registry from DOS programs is known and well
>> documented.
>> There's a book called "Inside the Windows 95 Registry" which tells the
>> story and shows code.
>
>From what I can recall, this book does not contain enough information for
>programs working in 32-bit protected mode. Something to do with the value
>of the SS & BP registers before and after calls, although that's just a
>hazy recollection.
>
>> There's a library compatible with DJGPP (called regdos or something)
>> which can do that.  Look it up.
>
>Regdos seems to have vanished, reappeared and then vanished again - or
>rather, the author's home page has disappeared. Anyway, I just discovered
>that I put a copy of it here:
>
>http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/mysoft.html#homeless

I just downloaded it out of curiosity, and in the very first 
header file I examined I found illegal C:

	#define __DOSX_H

All identifiers beginning with an underscore and followed by a 
capital letter or another underscore are reserved to the 
implementation (compiler and library), and in user code they lead 
to undefined behavior.

See
	http://www.mindspring.com/~brahms/c-predef.htm

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