From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Real Mode function doesn't work
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:58:42 CST
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> > >     dosmemput (disp_str, __tb, length);
> > check the argument order here
> That is the only order of the arguments that will compile.

The prototype is 
void dosmemput(const void *_buffer, size_t _length, unsigned long _offset);
(you can see this in include/sys/movedata.h).

If it doesn't compile then there is something wrong with your code.
Randomly changing argument order is no way to try to debug code.

If you pass the wrong arguments it will never work.