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From:	root AT ursa DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: buffer -> screen transfers
Date:	20 Aug 1996 18:41:05 GMT
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Leath Muller (leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au) wrote:

: If your not in the final development stages of your program, it ends up
: OK to use the farnspoke etc routines because your not too worried about
: speed. What I did, was wait until I knew my routines were debugged fully
: (fully? yeah right... ;) and then used the __crt0_nearptr_enable (or
: similar) flag at the start of my program to disable all memory
: protection.
: This has the advantage of not having to call the enable/disable calls
: all the time, and increases the speed of video intensive subroutines a
: LOT!

Will __crt0_nearptr_enable allow a pointer to linear address 0xa0000 to
directly access the video screen?

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