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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject: Re: dpmi under windows (fwd)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 09:10:35 -0600 (CDT)

> I hate to be a pain in the ***(*) about this, but how exactly do you tell
> windows to give the application 5M of DPMI memory?  I've checked into
> my memory configuration, and I have 2-4M physical and 2-4M virtual
> memory available in windows when I did some testing, but I do not know
> the mechanism that windows uses to give this to the application.

It appears that you must have at least a 5Mb swap file for Windows to be
happy allocating this much memory.  If you have LOTS of free RAM this may
not be necessary, but right now I would say 5Mb swap is the MINIMUM 
requirement to run DJGPP apps, and 6Mb to 8Mb a much better idea.  Another
item for the FAQ I guess.  If this is too much, don't run under Windows.

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