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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:44:02 +0300
From: alex bodnaru <alexbodn AT 012 DOT net DOT il>
Subject: Re: dos buffer
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look fo "btrieve" in the mailing list

alex

Eric wrote:
> Can anyone point me to some sample code that shows how to allocate a dos
> buffer (below 1 meg). I want to understand how to do things this way and
> not rely on tb. 
> For instance:
>   allocate buffer below 1 meg - size -32k
>   fill buffer with data and read it back
>   store actual buffer address in say regs.r.ax and regs.r.bx 
>   free buffer
> 
> I looked at __dpmi_allocate_dos_memory but it gets you a selector and I dont
> know what to do to convert that to a pointer
> 
> Thanks
> Eric
>