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Re: Accessing memory (Monitor)

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From: David Charlap
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:23
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In article <19921015.045120.701@almaden.ibm.com> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
>/***************************************************************************
> * Structure defining the layout of the LVB Buffers.  The Buffer consists  *
> * of Host_Rows*Host_Cols 2-Byte Cells.                                    *
> ***************************************************************************/
>typedef union {
>  struct {
>    BYTE Character;               /* ASCII Character                         */
>    BYTE Color;                   /* Foreground/Background Color             */
>  } Byte;
>  UINT Cell;                      /* Allows access to the 2-byte cell        */

Shouldn't this be USHORT if you mean 2-byte?  Else you stand a chance
of it being compiled to a ULONG on some systems.

>} LVB;
>
>LVB     *lvb_Ptr;                /* Logical Video Buffer                    */
>USHORT  lvb_Size;                /* Size of LVB in bytes                    */
-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
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----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
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Subject: Re: Accessing memory (Monitor)
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