[fpc-devel] bug report

[Marco van de Voort]

> I installed version 1.9.4 for windows and compiled my program.
> It appears to work perfectly, and, amazingly, the size of the
> executable was reduced from 63k to 23k!
> 
> To give the windows version a more rigorous test, I compiled
> a DOS filter program I wrote as a partial replacement for
> ANSI.SYS.  It failed to display ANSI pictures properly;
> it seems that BIOS calls don't work.  (I can't use the CRT unit
> because piping can't be used with it.)
> 
> So I will use the windows version most of the time and will
> fall back to the DOS version only when BIOS calls are needed.

Did any of the BIOS calls have an address to data as one of the arguments?
If so, read the documentation for the GO32V2 unit, most notably
copyfromdos/copytodos.