Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:16:24 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Yong-Kwang Goh <ykgoh1 AT singnet DOT com DOT sg>
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Subject: Re: Saving CMOS to File
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Yong-Kwang Goh wrote:

> How do I save the contents of CMOS to file? In other word, how do I access
> the CMOS memory's contents?

outportb(0x70, ram address); // CMOS RAM address can be from 0 to 127.
inportb(0x71);// Gets you the byte at that address.

Doing outportb(0x71, value) will write to the CMOS byte. Be careful while
doing this!