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From: Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Subject: Re: Converting old routines - Goddamn it all to hell!!!!!!!!!!
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Ian McArdle wrote:

<SNIP>

Ian, if you keep this up you're going to piss off a lot of people,
including Eli Zaretskii, a very nice, overworked, underappreciated guy
who reads this group a lot and is the author of the FAQ you just
urinated on. And pissed-off people aren't generally as helpful as they
would be if asked reasonably politely.

The answers to the questions you asked *are* all in the FAQ. I suggest
you take a deep breath, calm down and read it again. And remember, djgpp
is a real C compiler, NOT a Turbo C clone ( *all* the functions you
mentioned are non-standard functions from Turbo C or Quick C or similar
16-bit trash.) 

Here are some pointers to help you along:
_fmemcpy etc is explained in section 17: Converting DOS
Programs/Libraries to DJGPP .

The hardware interrupt vector stuff is discussed in section 18:
Low-level DOS/BIOS and Hardware-oriented Programming. 

Examples of how to implement this stuff abound: visit 
http://www.rt66.com/~brennan/djgpp/ for pointers to sites with tutorials
and source code of interest, arranged according to topic.

Online help is available for almost all functions, using info: at the
command prompt type "info libc alphabetical <name_of_function>" to get
online help and an example using the function in question.

If you have problems porting old DOS code, post a *short* message to
this newsgroup (sans expletives) stating *specifically* what the problem
is, and please remember that *everybody* on this list, without
exception, is offering *free* advice, on his/her own time. This is not
tech support. This is mutual self-support. 

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