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From: jhunter AT kendaco DOT telebyte DOT com (Joel Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Video Question Part II
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 09:33:35 GMT
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shavelk AT agora DOT rdrop DOT com (Steve Havelka) wrote:

>Ok, someone directed me to sys/farptr.h as the solution
>to the 0xd0000000-under-DPMI problem.  I decided to
>give it a shot, but it fails too.  It GPFs on the
>access to 0xa0000 and 0xb8000.  I'd really like to be
>able to directly manipulate the text screen in DJGPP,
>but I can't directly do it, nor is it mapped anywhere.
>Also, I checked the FAQ already and it didn't contain
>any such information.  Thanks!

  Perhaps you are forgetting to use
_go32_info_block.selector_for_linear_memory?

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