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From: readdm@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read)
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Subject: Re: Finding the MCGA in Quick C 2.01
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Date: 17 Aug 90 11:46:37 GMT
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In article <> julian@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
>
>So my question boils down to this: what is the cleanest way of
>accessing an absolute address such as 0xa0000 in Quick C?
>

I don't know about QuickC for sure, but I have done the following
successfully in full-blown Microsoft C (5.1):
   
   unsigned char far *mem;

   mem = 0xA000:0000;
   *(mem + offset) = val;

where offset & val are self-explanatory.  I did this in order to 
do some direct screen writes to CGA ram, and everything worked just
fine, in all four memory models.

Good luck with it...

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Dave Read                       | read@lampf.lanl.gov 
UT-Austin Nuclear Physics       | readdm@walt.cc.utexas.edu