Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 14:36:34 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) Message-ID: <199711010406.OAA00828@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Nov 1997 02:13:20 -0000." <199711010213.TAA15524@usr08.primenet.com>
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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.
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