BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Approval required: (fwd)

[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

>From owner-rtl Wed Aug  1 12:18:40 2001
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Wayne Dunkel wrote:

> I have a variable declared as a short. which function should I use to output it
> to hardware? I assume one of the following: outsb, outsw, outsl, but I don't know which.
>

It depends on your hardware.
b = byte, w= word, l = word.
Try man outb. or info outb.

It does not have any meening writing a word to hardware that only takes bytes.

Anders Gnistrup

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