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Article #873Re: VGA memory address
From: John A. Slagel
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:05
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:05
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Kayvon Z. Sadeghi <KSADEGH@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>In article <22AUG199203465370@acad3.alaska.edu>, sxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu
>And for all of those who send me email: Lets say I have such a code in
>my program.
>struct character{
> char ch;
> unsigned char att;
>} *p;
> .
> .
> .
> .
>p=(struct character *)MK_FP(0xB800,0x00);
>p->ch='u';
Well, it looks to me like you aren't using a far pointer. Try this:
struct character {
char ch;
unsigned char att;
} far *p;
p=(struct character far *)MK_FP(0xB800, 0x00 );
p->ch='u';
Hope this helps, and I think that the people who flamed this posting
need to spend their time helping people, not insulting them. Jerks.
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John A. Slagel "My old man used to tell me, before he left this
j-slagel1@uiuc.edu shitty world, never chase buses or women- you
always get left behind." -The Marlboro Man
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