Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:29:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mirko Geffken <mirko AT seitz DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Question on farpoke
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Mirko Geffken wrote:

> 1) If I use the farpoke routine (don't know
>    the exact command at the moment) and look at the assembly I can see
>    something like .byte 0x64 assembled before the mov instruction.
>    My question, what exactly does this do?

This is the FS: segment override.  Gas (the GNU assembler) doesn't handle 
these well, so the usual practice is to put them in as .byte constants.