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From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: dos data segment
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:34:12 -0800
Organization: Communications Accesibles Montreal
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mwallace AT skyler DOT wiltel DOT com wrote:
> 
> I have read the FAQ and I still don't completely
> understand what the DOS datasegment (_dos_ds) is.  Can
> someone explain it to me in a different way?  Thanks.
> 
> Mike
I've got no ideea either,but:
An exe file should have (in dos,anyway) a code segment where the actual
code is and a data segment where data is kept.
BTW:is "data" plural or singular?according to the dictionary data is
plural.
So wadda ya say:
Tha DATA IS in a file or Tha DATA ARE in a file??
TIA.
-- 
tudor 'at' cam 'dot' org
http://www.cam.org/~tudor

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