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"Prashant TR" <prashant_news AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> Gareth wrote:
> > Is there way
> >with DJGPP to specify the segment or selector of a variable or structure
> >when you are allocating memory for it?
>
> Don't think so. But you're mixing up segments and selectors. The
> name "selector" is when you're refering to prot. mode and "segment"
> when you're using real mode.

Didn't Eli and I discuss segments vs. selectors? IIRC
selectors are the numbers you place in a ?S register to
gain access to a segment, or a block of memory.