From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: nearptr enabled?
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:41:58 +1000
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Hammy <darren AT grayce DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:7ulo3f$5kb$1 AT news4 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk...
> i would do it a safe way, but I dont understand it.  Besides, I hear it was
> slower using the farpokey things

It's not really. Use the far* functions and the dosmemput function.

If you really want to use the nearptr hack however, look up the function
__djgpp_nearptr_enable and add the _djgpp_conventional_base variable to your
video pointer.

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