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> Work on calling BIOS calls via VM86().  Get that working, and
> dozens of people will be happy to correct the problem for you.

I'm doing that today (but screwed because I'm out of paper and *&^%*&^
Micorosoft post Word documents and pretend that they're RTF, so I can't 
*read* the suckers).  (*)

Anyone likely to complain if I add a new datastructure to i386/bios.c and 
start populating it with stuff that various parts of the system glean 
about the BIOS environment?  Or should I be using a procedural lookup 
interface for this?

eg. either:

	foo = i386biosinfo->bios_memsize;

or

	error = i386biosinfo("memsize", &foo)

??

mike

* Terry, I believe you mentioned that some Microsoft Developer package 
  contained sources for the Word Viewer, or something similar.  Would 
  there be any chance of crossing this with a Win32-on-unix environment
  like that from Willows or Bristol to get a FreeBSD Word Viewer?  I'm
  sick beyond belief of having to find a copy of Word and 2-300 sheets
  of paper just to read these banal "standard" documents.