Re: DPMI & BIOS

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From: Alexei A. Frounze
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:00

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"Daniel M. Pfeffer" wrote:
> 
> It depends on your DPMI server. Most servers work with arbitrary
> register-based DOS and BIOS APIs (those accepting no pointers). Consult your
> DOS extender's documentation for support for pointer-based APIs.

Yes, not all ints or their <sub>functions are supported in PMode as well as
in Real Mode. I found that mouse pointer shape functions work under
Windows95 only if you call Int 33h via DPMI. The same thing was with IPX
protocol functions.

DPMI services are indeed preffered.

bye.
Alexei A. Frounze
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