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echo: power_bas
to: JASON EICHOLTZ
from: ROWAN CROWE
date: 1995-04-26 00:07:00
subject: FAR calling need help...

Answering msg from Jason Eicholtz to All,
on Wednesday April 19 1995 at 16:57
 JE> How do I access this? It says to make a far call to the driver entry
 JE> point address to get the info, but I have no idea how to do this in
 JE> PowerBasic...
    I'm not sure if you're asking how to do a far call, or information on XMS 
in general. You can "roll your own" far call, assuming that PB allows you to 
insert bytes. Here's an example I just did in DEBUG:
9A 7856 3412    CALL 1234:5678
^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
 |   |    |
op   |    |
  offset  |
       segment
    This is actually a far call, although DEBUG doesn't explicitly say "far". 
The opcode for a far call is 9Ah (&h9A). After that comes the offset, and the 
segment.
    I can't give you more specific help as I don't use PB... :-(
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