Hi,   
      
   On 13 Nov 11 12:39, Scott Little wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
     about: "fsetup":   
      
    SL> What interrupts is it generating?  int21h is DOS (probably for stdio),   
    SL> int10h is video BIOS (probably to move/hide the cursor).   
      
   All kinds. I did a grep:   
      
   ARCHIVE.C:        geninterrupt (0x67);        /* Open handle */   
   ARCHIVE.C:           geninterrupt (0x67);   
   ARCHIVE.C:        geninterrupt (0x67);   
   ARCHIVE.C:        geninterrupt (0x67);   
   DUPS.C:          geninterrupt (0x67); /* Get pageframe */   
   DUPS.C:             geninterrupt (0x67);        /* Open handle */   
   DUPS.C:                geninterrupt (0x67);   
   DUPS.C:                      geninterrupt (0x67);   
   DUPS.C:                   geninterrupt (0x67);   
   DUPS.C:      geninterrupt (0x67);   
   DUPS.C:      geninterrupt (0x67);   
   FILESYS.C:   geninterrupt(0x31);   
   MTASK.C:   geninterrupt(0x21);   
   MTASK.C:   geninterrupt(0x2F);   
   MTASK.C:   geninterrupt(0x21);   
   MTASK.C:           geninterrupt(0x15);   
   MTASK.C:                       geninterrupt(0x2F);   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);        \   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);        \   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);     \   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);     \   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);     \   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:    geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:    geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:       geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   OUTPUT.C:      geninterrupt (0x21);   
   OUTPUT.C:      geninterrupt (0x21);   
   OUTPUT.C:      geninterrupt (0x21);   
   WINDOW.C:       geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:       geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:          geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:       geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:       geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:         geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:    geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:    geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:       geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:         geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:      geninterrupt (0x10);   
   WINDOW.C:   geninterrupt (0x10);   
      
   Note: You don't see the #ifdef's here, so probably not every one is used in   
   the fsetupx version.   
   Note2: You don't see which parameters are set before the function call, so   
   there are probably some duplications regarding functionality...   
      
    SL>>> both of which should be portable to a Win32 console without too   
    SL>>> much trouble   
    WV>> Maybe, if I knew how (do you mean using the conio.h family of   
    WV>> functions?) and it wouldn't be too much work I might be tempted. But I   
      
    SL> Not directly.  conio.h looks to use DOS/BIOS calls, so it's   
    SL> line/stream-oriented rather than a screen buffer.   
      
    SL> The main reasons for using $B800 were speed and the fact that writing   
    SL> anything to the lower-right cell using DOS automatically scrolled the   
    SL> screen up, so if it's not doing anything else some simple wrapper   
   functions   
    SL> to set the cursor position and avoid the lower-right cell would suffice.   
      
    SL> Win32 (and OS/2, AFAIK) has a buffer-oriented console, so code using $B800   
    SL> is directly portable, but since *nix terminals are stream-oriented there's   
    SL> no equivalent.   
      
    SL> Win32:   
    SL> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6   
   2073(v=vs.85).a   
      
   I'll check it out...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
      
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