Message-ID: <19990525084445.23813.qmail@www0b.netaddress.usa.net>
Date: 25 May 99 01:44:44 PDT
From: Oscar Almer <firstcheesemaster AT netscape DOT net>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: BIOS problem
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hi!
could someone tell me if a c program written with djgpp could corrupt the
settings in BIOS? This happened to me: i wrote a small communications program,
wich used __djgpp_nearptr_enable() and _djgpp_conventional_base
to adress the interrupt register and install a small interrupt to catch
characters received. It worked (and works) fine. the problem is, when i
rebooted the computer, all my bios settings were gone, and default values had
taken their place. I had to manually specify disk parameters and such. right
now, it works okay, but is rather hard to start. (it refuses to find DOS).
now, can somebody tell me if there is a chance that these events is
interlinked?

Thanks.

Oscar

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