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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows trashes my 800x600 graphics mode program
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:45:47 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> Isn't there an interrupt listed in Ralf Brown's list that allows a 
>> DOS app to detect when Windows has switched it away?
>
> That's the catch: there isn't any (at least AFAIK).  If anybody knows
> how to achieve this, I'd certainly like to add that to the FAQ.

Ralph Brown does list some functions for doing this, but Windows 
never actually calls them. So either Ralph is wrong, or Microsoft 
are wrong :-)


	Shawn Hargreaves.