Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:26:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: BIOS call from interrupt?
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> But how does using BIOS functions affect the portability of the program to
> Linux? I can't imagine that being a great idea!?

AFAIK, you can't write a portable program that hooks interrupts.  So
you will need to encapsulate the code that does that in wrappers that
present uniform portable interface, and rewrite the guts of the
wrapped functions for every platform.