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T h a n k   y o u .


"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
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>
> > Is there a more portable C function to check
> > available memory than the DPMI function
> > "__dpmi_get_free_memory_information()" ?
>
> Not really.  There's a way to do it with repeated calls to malloc()
> but some systems react badly to such tests (linux without swap, for
> one).