From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Weird locking bug
Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:56:26 CDT
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> prints out 600 (the DPMI function code for locking). [snip]  Still,
> shouldn't it work? (According to System Monitor, I have 14.4MB of free 
> physical memory.)

You didn't add the selector base address to the memory, so you are
trying to lock the DOS memory area (a bug in the code).

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