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Re: bios interrupt #13

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From: Timothy F. Sipples
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:44
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In article <1992Aug27.023315.18282@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda612c@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (js [schwobby]) writes:
>I would like to use something similar to bios#13 interrupt.
>(which is sector read and write to disk)
>I can read using it, but i can`t write using it.
>(I know it inflicts with the sytems integretry).
>Well, I need to use something similar.
>  - is there any prot address i can write to?
>  - is there an higher interrupt, which is reentrant an allows me to
>    use it?
>  - Is there any literature out there, where I can find sth. about the
>    topic?
>I don`t want to rewrite to much code, hence my reason to use it.

I'll go hunting -- I think I saw information on how to do this.  I
have to ask, though, why you wish to do this.

I strongly, emphatically recommend against it -- if you can do it
another way, figure it out now.

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