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Re: self re-booting program!

#8483
From: Alan Barclay
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 09:57
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In article <1991Mar18.081748.25848@ktibv.uucp> rdb@ktibv.uucp (Rob den Braasem) writes:
>
>Hello
>
>   How about a small program jumping directly to the boot address.
>   This address is on all machines FFFF:0000.
>
>   just make a small pascal or c program and include
>
>   JMP FFFF:0000
>
>   This will do the trick.
>

I tried this:

main(){
   JMP FFFF:00000;

   }

but it didn't work, is there an .h file I should include ?? :-)
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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: self re-booting program!
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.095731.6269@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 19 Mar 91 09:57:31 GMT
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