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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 1998 05:13:04 -0500
From:      Brian Cully <shmit@erols.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DOSCMD: Problems w/ Quicken
Message-ID:  <19980119051304.06795@erols.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801190321.NAA00804@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 01:51:42PM %2B1030
References:  <19980118192319.02894@ct.picker.com> <199801190321.NAA00804@word.smith.net.au>

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On %M %N, Mike Smith wrote:
> Yecch.  If it's actually trying to do what the above claims, it's 
> making quite a mess.  (0040:0000 is in seriously low memory, but 
> 0040:ffff doesn't make any sense at all).

Hrm... now it's been a while since I've done DOS assembler, so this
maybe incorrect, but IIRC, 0x40 is the keyboard segment.

0x40:0x0 is the head of the keyboard buffer
0x40:0x2 is the tail
and the next 16 bytes is the ring-buffer.

So I have no idea what 0xffff would be, except perhaps a miscalculation.
Although, you may be able to expand the size of the keyboard buffer, and
the tail could have ended up there...

Take it with a grain of salt, but I believe the above is true, but, like
I said before it's been six or eight years since I've dealt with it.

-- 
Brian Cully						<shmit@erols.com>
``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung
  upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the
  best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There)



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