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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: code to copy screen buffers
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:40:49 +0100 
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nchuming writes:
> Does anyone know any other way to swap screen buffers
> from to video memory except using dosmemput(framebuffer, 64000, 0xa0000).
> Can it be done in using inline assembler?

There are a million and one possible ways, for example you could use
a C loop calling _farptr() functions, dosmemput(), enable the nearptr
hack and then use a memcpy(), write it yourself in asm, etc. But
ultimately none of these will be faster than dosmemput(), so why
bother?


	Shawn Hargreaves.