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From: dan AT dan DOT emsphone DOT com (Dan Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Q: How to handle 64k segments?
Date: 15 May 1996 15:23:02 GMT
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Armin Herzer <herzer AT fbp DOT fh-weingarten DOT de> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have the following question concerning DJGPP (v1.12mt5 and v2): What
> must I do to copy a 64k segment (starting at DC000) into an array with the
> size of [256][256]. Can someone please post me an example?

C:\> info libc.a a dosmemget
C:\> info libc.a a movedata

#include <sys/movedata.h>

void get1(void)
{
    unsigned char array[256][256];
    dosmemget(0xDC000, 65536, array);
}

void get2(void)
{
    unsigned char array[256][256];
    movedata(_dos_ds, 0xDC000, _my_ds, array, 65536);
}

	-Dan Nelson
	dan AT dan DOT emsphone DOT com