Contributor: MARIUS ELLEN { DVE>> What I want to do is to make it point to the next byte in memory, DVE>> sort of "apointer:=[byte ptr] apointer + 1" DVE>> Apointer:=ptr(seg(apointer^),Ofs(apointer^) + 1); AGB> That won't work if the pointer is equal to 0FFFFh (Segment must be AGB> adjusted!). A shorter (and faster?) method of coding this (wrong) way : AGB> Inc(LongInt(APointer)); Oeps, this doesn't work either, especially in the case $ffff ! (unwanted paragraph increase and in protected mode a RunTime Error 216 "General protection fault") For non segm. overrides this should work fine: Aptr:=pchar(Aptr)+1; and if youre planning segments overrides than you should use this: } function GetDosPtr(Point:Pointer;Offs:Longint):pointer; assembler;{offs in [$0..$fffff} asm mov dx,point.word[2] mov cx,offs.word[2] mov bx,offs.word[0] add bx,point.word[0] adc cx,0 mov ax,bx and ax,0fh shr cx,1;rcr bx,1 shr cx,1;rcr bx,1 shr cx,1;rcr bx,1 shr cx,1;rcr bx,1 add dx,bx end; {And for protected mode: } function GetPtr(BASE:Pointer;Offs:Longint):Pbyte; assembler; asm MOV AX,word ptr [OFFS+2] MOV BX,word ptr [OFFS+0] ADD BX,word ptr [BASE+0] ADC AX,0 MUL SelectorInc ADD AX,word ptr [BASE+2] MOV DX,AX MOV AX,BX end;