From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 16:17:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C451B1530B for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leisner@rochester.rr.com) Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.81]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:14:12 -0500 Received: from mail2.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.75]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:14:31 -0500 Received: from rochester.rr.com ([24.93.17.24]) by mail2.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:13:37 -0500 Received: from soyata.home (IDENT:leisner@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rochester.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA02682; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:16:39 -0500 Message-Id: <200001260016.TAA02682@rochester.rr.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 Reply-To: leisner@rochester.rr.com To: "Sam Hays" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@rochester.rr.com Subject: Re: C question In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:03:04 CST." <001701bf6777$92f0ffa0$297631cc@ecofl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:16:39 -0500 From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This has nothing to do with reasonable operating systems. ;-) NEAR is a 16 bit dos pointer (same segment register) FAR is a 32 bit pointer (segment/offset) This isn't an issue unless you use 8086 real mode. Marty Leisner "Sam Hays" writes on Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:03:04 CST > Out of curiosity, > what is the difference between NEAR and FAR in C/C++? please don't respond > w/ a damned man page =] thanx > -Sam > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message