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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs DOS (DJGPP) port converts upper-ASCII characters to ASCII 127
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:46:07 +0100
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"Doug Kaufman" <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> said:

> My comment was that TCPPORT had to be real mode. I don't understand
> why, but this is explicitly stated in the code. See tcpport.c in the
> WATT-32 distribution.

tcpport is used to direct com-port BIOS traffic over a TCP connection. A bit
like FOSSIL does. It's written as 16-bit real-mode program just for simplicity.

Gisle V.