From: brunobg AT geocities DOT com (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Far Pointers
Date: 2 Sep 1998 14:35:12 -0500
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:29:58 +1000, Christopher New <cnew01 AT athene DOT mit DOT csu DOT edu DOT au>
wrote:

>I am more than aware that far pointers are not used in protected mode.
>But i was wondering how to access location's in memory using the flat
>model. I am in the proccess of converting old 16bit code and it's for 
>graphics so there are many references to points in far memory. I am 
>particularly concerned with finding the old video mode. I can set the mode
>and write to it so this is'nt a display problem

I wrote a "Using far pointers in DJGPP" tutorial. It's at my homepage:
http://graphx.home.ml.org

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