Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:50:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Win2000 and nearptr
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On 22 May 2002, Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:

> > You cannot use nearptr facilities on Windows 2000, Windows NT, and
> > Windows XP (and any other descendants of the NT family): those
> > versions of Windows don't allow to define a huge segment limit for
> > the data descriptor that is needed for nearptrs to work.
> 
> and what is work around for this problem ? ther must be some way to acces 
> 0xB800:0000 in Win2000, is there ?

Of course, there is a way: use farptr, or dosmemget/dosmemput, or one of 
the other methods described in some detail in section 18.4 of the DJGPP 
FAQ list.