From: gregorio AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I get a corrupted font from BIOS ROM. What am I doing wrong?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 20:45:56 GMT
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>>   dosmemput(temp_font,4096, (r.x.es << 4) + r.x.bp );
>
>Don't you mean dosmemget()? This will transfer data from your address
>space into conventional memory, which is the exact opposite of what you
>are trying to do!

Ouch! Very true. I had a previous setfont routine which used
dosmemput, and though it would run backwards.

Thanks for the help, now the routine works perfectly.

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