From: De Messemaeker Johan Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: A beginner question ... Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:19:08 +0200 Organization: RUG Gent Lines: 5 Message-ID: <334BA55C.2209@rug.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: infernal.rug.ac.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp This may be a very stupid question but : what is the exact difference between far and near pointers ... could somebody explain it with a realistic example ? thanks