Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:33:17 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Dirk Färber <faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
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Subject: Re: xms-memory
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On 25 Jan 1999, Dirk Färber wrote:

> does anyone knows how to access the xms-memory?

If you compile your programs with DJGPP, you shouldn't normally need to 
access XMS memory as such.

> Does djgpp offers advantagous concepts?

Yes.  Just call malloc with the size that you need (could be many 
megabytes) and use whatever it returns as normal memory.  The DPMI
server will do the rest (access XMS, allocate a block, do the necessary 
bookkeeping etc.).

Isn't that what you want?  If not, please describe the details.