🚀 go-pugleaf

       Greatings fellow netters :)

   A friend of mine is writing some kind of communication
program in windows. The driver is called TES and is 
located at INT 14. The services TES provides are A0 through A8.
He is using Borland C++ 3.0. 

   Most of the services work, just by using int86x() inside
the program, but when he tries to send a string, TES doesn't
seem to get the right one, just some garbage. 

   The string is supposed to be pointed by DS:SI. I.e. to do a
connect:

-------------------------------------------------------------
   AH = A3h Connect a New Session with <NAME>

Call with:
   DS:SI points to a (null-terminated) string within the user 
   data space, naming a known server.

Returns with:
   AH = 0 if successful, and AL = session number activated, or
   AH = FF if unsuccessful, and AL = error code.
-------------------------------------------------------------
   
   So he though of doing something like:

void connect()
{
   union REGS regs;
   struct SREGS sregs;
   static char *Name = "Server";

   regs.x.ax = 0xA300;
   regs.x.dx = 0x00;
   regs.x.si = FP_OFF( Name );
   sregs.ds = FP_SEG( Name );

   int86x( INT, &regs, &regs, &sregs );
}


   But this doesn't seem to work, TES always get send some 
garbaged string. That is if an UAE doesn't creep up at his
display.


   So what is the catch here? It doesn't seem to matter wether 
he declares all segments FIXED or not?

Thanks,
Indridi.

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