Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:26:09 GMT
From:	kvhk AT ivs4 DOT barco DOT com (Koen Van Herck)
Message-Id:	<9611131026.AA19527@ivs4.>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961113091034.4470G-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:14:57 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: DPMI programming book
Reply-To:	Koen DOT VanHerck AT barco DOT com

> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> 
...
> > I think I understand dosmem{get|put}
> > but I don't exactly what selectors are, etc.
> 
> You don't need the selectors that the above function returns.  Just use 
> dosmemget and dosmemput to move data from and to the allocated buffer.
> (Selectors are a protected-mode equivalent of the real-mode segments.  
> You should get some book on protected-mode programming with Intel CPUs 
> and read the first chapters which describe how x86 works in protected 
> mode.  This issue is too vast to describe in a post.)
> 

Do you have a good suggestion ? Any particular book to recommend ?

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