From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Subject: Re: Writing text to screen
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Brent Ritchie <britchieb212 AT rogers DOT com> wrote:
:     I just wanted to know how do I write text to the screen without using
: "cout". I am writing a Command line for my new OS and I don't want to
: re-write the C++ standard library just yet. My OS runs in protected mode so

printf()? Then you just have to rewrite the C library. Actually you
could pick some of the best parts from libc (if you ever intend to
distribute your OS then you must distibute it under the GPL if you do
this).

: I'll have to use the video memory directly. Any help appreciated.

Otherwise check out _farpokew()?


Right,

						MartinS