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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
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Subject: Re: Memory Access
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Date: 14 Dec 90 18:13:50 GMT
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Well, assuming that you are on a non protected mode machine (ie. IBM PC)
that lets you read into any absolute memory address, you can use standard
C pointers to read in individual characters.  However, for large memroy
locations (locations outside of your segment) you needs to uses a 
FAR pointer.  Read the documentation on MK_FP, FP_SEG, and FP_OFF for
more on that.  I suppose that you could use memcpy to copy a specified
amount of memory and then you could examine it later as a string....
Turbo C have a poke and peek function built in, but this assumes that you
are using TC on a DOS machine.