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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Editing the GDT
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 08:31:38 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> Actually, I'm glad someone told me about adding 0xe0000000 to the offset to
> be able to access any random address.. This works just fine!

As long as you don't run under DPMI.  Your program will not run under a
DOS session in Windows, under OS/2, under QDPMI or 386MAX, etc.  That's fine
for a single machine environment but completely unacceptable for software
that might be distributed.

> : Remember GO32 disappears very soon, it's a dead product, don't program for
> : it's quirks!
> 
> Why? The version I'm using right now, 1.13m4, I think, does everything I need
> it to do.. So what if the later versions don't do what I'm doing now, I'll
> just stay with this one. Its only if this version doesn't support an
> important function that I'll consider moving to another one..

If V1.12m4 had everything everyone needs, there would not need to be a V2.
Yes, I expect V1.12 will be around for a while, but I think most people will
migrate to V2.