From: ps13 AT gauss DOT ma DOT ic DOT ac DOT uk (Mr P. Steele) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: far pointers Date: 8 Mar 1997 13:50:27 GMT Organization: Imperial College, London, UK Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5frqr3$em6@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gauss.ma.ic.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp In djgpp do I have to initialise far pointers using the farptr.h , if so how do I do it. An example would be something like as follows unsigned char *rom_char_set = (char far *)0xF000FA6EL; I seem to be having trouble writing to the address. Any help will be a great help. Peter Steele **p DOT steele AT ic DOT ac DOT uk**