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bios.h in C++ ???!!!

hello people, i'm trying to run a program in C++ but the header file - bios.h seems not to be recognised by my Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. Is there a way out of this? In need of urgent reply...
-Lucianoefe
Oct 25 '08 #1
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My recollection is that bios.h came with Microsoft compilers targeted at DOS based systems and gave direct access to the hardware through bios calls which you could do in DOS.

You can't do this on Windows any longer as it is no longer DOS based. I would expect all modern compilers well anything from Microsoft greater than or equal to Visual C++ 2.0 to not have this file as these compilers/IDEs are targeted at WIN32 and later based systems.

Whatever you need bios.h for you will have to find another way of doing it.
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