Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:15:12 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Windows trashes my 800x600 graphics mode program
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> > 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 :-)

I think Windows does call these functions, but in a way that they aren't 
passed to DPMI programs.  Perhaps somebody could throw together a short 
16-bit real-mode program and see if it gets those Int 2Fh call-outs.