Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh
From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix shared/video memory
Keywords: shared memory, video memory, ipc facilities
Message-ID: <2751@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 01:24:24 GMT
References: <307@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <307@marob.MASA.COM> samperi@marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>How does one attach video memory (say, 0xB8000...) to the address
>space of a process via the shared memory IPC facilities (the AT&T-
>style ones) in the SCO Xenix environment?

under the version of SCO Xenix running here, you open the /dev/<video board>
device and throw some IOCTL's at it.  what you get back seems to work
Just Fine(tm) as an address.

- john.
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