Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:26:09 GMT From: kvhk AT ivs4 DOT barco DOT com (Koen Van Herck) Message-Id: <9611131026.AA19527@ivs4.> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:14:57 +0200 (IST)) Subject: Re: DPMI programming book Reply-To: Koen DOT VanHerck AT barco DOT com > On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Eric Christopherson wrote: > ... > > I think I understand dosmem{get|put} > > but I don't exactly what selectors are, etc. > > You don't need the selectors that the above function returns. Just use > dosmemget and dosmemput to move data from and to the allocated buffer. > (Selectors are a protected-mode equivalent of the real-mode segments. > You should get some book on protected-mode programming with Intel CPUs > and read the first chapters which describe how x86 works in protected > mode. This issue is too vast to describe in a post.) > Do you have a good suggestion ? Any particular book to recommend ? ---- Koen Van Herck Electronic Design Engineer E-mail: Koen DOT VanHerck AT barco DOT com BBBB AAA RRRR CCC OOO B A R C O V I S U A L S Y S T E M S B B A A R R C O O A division of Barco Projection Systems B BB A AAA R RR C OO O OO B B A A R R C O O Noordlaan 5 Tel +32 (0)56 36 85 71 BBBB A A R R CCC OOO B-8520 Kuurne Fax +32 (0)56 36 83 55