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From: mojo@netcom.UUCP (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: DosApps, DDE, and the Clipboard
Message-ID: <17379@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 90 16:38:05 GMT
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paulb@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>                                            It then communicates with
>the DOS app by allocating memory in the low megabyte of RAM (through
>GlobalDosAlloc), and placing the data there.  You can use whatever
>protocol takes your fancy to communicate between the windows server and
>your application.
>
>Please note, I haven't tried this - it just seems like the most sensible
>way to go about things.  

I know, I haven't tried this either, but I see a problem with that approach.
To my knowledge, a DOS app that's running in a Virtual 86 segment doesn't
have direct access to real mode DOS memory.  But I could be wrong.

Yes, DPMI should provide some kind of access.

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