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Article #6598Re: Borland C++ 4.0 - Who knows What? (actually TP 7)
From: Duncan Murdoch
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:55
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:55
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In article <1992Nov19.215351.3077@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> raymond@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond) writes: >>From what I can spot on a quick read through the BP 7 manual, there's no >>special support for interrupts. That is, you'll have to use the DPMI >>services directly. > >What sorts of services does DPMI provide? You'd be better off looking at a long writeup on it (e.g. the book Extending DOS), but in summary it provides an interface between a protected mode program and real mode DOS. (I think) you can set up interrupts to be serviced in either real mode or protected mode, but I've never done it. Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
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