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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Stefan van der Walt
date: 1996-04-04 15:54:38
subject: DMA

Hello Mike!

>> Quoting Mike Bilow to Stefan van der Walt << 

 SvdW> I want to do something like this:
 SvdW>    Blockread(infile,ansi,4000) or whatever and then
 SvdW>    Move(ansi,mem[$b800:000],4000);

 MB> You do not want to write directly to video memory under OS/2.  It can
 MB> be done with a convoluted set of API calls, including VioGetBuf, but
 MB> is a bad idea.  It is faster and more efficient to use the official
 MB> mechanisms for this. 

OK, but how do I display my magazine's ANSis then?  I have them written in RAW
format, (I mapped the text memory to a 4000byte file), and now I have to put
it back there...

Any help?

Cheers
Stefan


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