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From: leder@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Leder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: wanted: MASM routine
Message-ID: <1154@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 10:24:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpm.1154
Posted: Wed Jun  3 10:24:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 01:43:35 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: why not just use C

In article <15963@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@nancy (Rob DeMillo) writes:
> For some reason I am having trouble doing the following:
> 
> I need to write a MASM routine that is callable from a higher level
> MS language. (C or ForTran preferred...) The routine should just
> accept three values: a screen coordinate (x,y) and a color. The
> routine should then turn on the pixel at the approriate point in the
> appropriate color.

Please don't take this for a flame, but why not just use MSC to call
INT 10, i.e. int86() or int86x or use a "far" pointer to the memory
block of the screen and use & and | to twiddle the bits.

Bob Leder