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Re: C Library for Far Memory Management (Announcement)

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From: Doug Dougherty
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 1990 20:13
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naga@wet.UUCP (Peter Davidson) writes:


>A C function library is now available (presently for use only with
>Microsoft C, 5.10 and 6.00, and thus MS-DOS).  This library
>contains functions (based on the DOS memory functions) for reliable
>allocation of far memory (the memory beyond the 64K blocks normally
>allocated for a program's code and data).  These functions are

This is for MS C.  How does it compare/is it useful for Turbo C users?
I've used the farmalloc() functions in TC, and they seem to work.  I
didn't know anything was broken...
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Subject: Re: C Library for Far Memory Management (Announcement)
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