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From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Expanded/Extended memory use in MSC 5.1
Keywords: expanded extended memory microsoft
Message-ID: <6966@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 90 22:36:03 GMT
References: <8559@stiatl.UUCP> <2581@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2303@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:

>In article <8559@stiatl.UUCP> arw@stiatl.UUCP (Allan Watkins) writes:
><   4) WHEN IS SOMEONE GONNA MAKE IT EASY TO USE EXPANDED AND EXTENDED MEMORY
><       IN NORMAL MSC C LANGUAGE? (no violins please).

>In Zortech C, there is direct compiler and library support for allocating
>space in and having pointers into expanded memory.

>This, of course, doesn't help you if you wish to use MSC! :-)

The excellent shareware CXL library provide EMS handling for MSC (as
well as other compilers).  See PD:<MSDOS.C> on Simtel20 for a recent
version.

--Richard