Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:37:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Steven L Funk <steve AT cs DOT titech DOT ac DOT jp>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Newbie question about graphics
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On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Steven L Funk wrote:

> 	I have just started to play around with the EZ-GCC package, and I like
> it.  I am trying to teach myself some graphics programming, and have
> gotten some tutorials off the net.  But, I have a problem.  There is a
> reference to _dos_ds, which does not exist in any include file that I
> have looked at.  I have checked go32.h, dpmi.h, dos.h, etc.  I was just
> wondering what I am doing wrong, thanks.

`_dos_ds' is from DJGPP v2, and you have DJGPP v1.x (that's what EZ-GCC 
has, as far as I know).  I suggest you upgrade to DJGPP v2.01, which is 
the latest version.

> PS:  With the near pointer approach, is there a danger of frying the
> machine, is the danger limited to scrambling software?

Yes.  But DJGPP v1.x doesn't support near pointers either.