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From: | kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (Pieter Kunst) |
Subject: | Re: BIOS data area |
Sender: | news AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (USENET News System) |
Organization: | Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
References: | <727 DOT 950815 DOT 131640 AT bbs DOT logicnet DOT com> |
Date: | Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:00:20 GMT |
Lines: | 18 |
To: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Dj-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
In article <727 DOT 950815 DOT 131640 AT bbs DOT logicnet DOT com> matt DOT emmett AT bbs DOT logicnet DOT com (Matt Emmett) writes: > > i'm wondering to access the Bios data area, specifically the address >at 40h:42h. anyhelp would be appreciated. thanx. > (1) You shouldn't mess with BIOS data directly. Use some higher level API instead. (2) If you really have to, use: unisgned char bytevalue; /* assuming it is a 8-bit value at 40:42 */ dosmemget (0x442, sizeof(unsigned char), &bytevalue); dosmemput (&bytevalue, sizeof(unsigned char), 0x442); Pieter.
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