On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:33:02 +0100 (MEZ), Ruediger Ihle wrote:

>>I've checked this in detail now: DOS32FLATDS may be used 
>>at INIT time of DEVICEs as well. 
>You are right ! But my tests here showed, that it will only work for
>memory areas that are truly allocated by VMAlloc. I do get strange
>results, if the area in question is a mapping of some physical location.
>Funny enough, it works for both types of memory when called at task
>time. That's why I assumed DOS32FLATDS wouldn't be usable at INIT.

Oh no.
If it doesn't work with physical memory in a reliable way, I can definitely forget it.
So I will again stick to my previous original approach and will use selectors. And I 
hope that's the last decision 
that I will have to make :-)

cu, Kiewitz


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