Message-ID:	<325473C3.5606@cs.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Oct 1996 19:17:39 -0700
From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To:	fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization:	Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC:	DJGPP Workers Mailing List <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Stub error messages (Was: Re: 'Cannot open')
References:	<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 961003104820 DOT 27330P-100000 AT is>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Why isn't the report along the lines of go32-v2 enough?  Is it that
> important to tell people "You have 24MB installed, but only 1MB are
> available to DJGPP programs"?  People usually know how many RAM they
> have, and when they see "1MB free DPMI memory" message, they should know
> by themselves, don't they?

Well, basically what I would like the program to do is recommend to the
user one of the configurations mentioned in the FAQ based on how much
base RAM they have.  I mean, it's easy enough to just say "Free up more
RAM, loser," but I wanted to be a bit more descriptive.  ;)  This isn't
really needed right now, but I would like to consider adding it in the
future.

I took a look at the URL that Morten Welinder recommended
(http://www.uruk.org/grub/), but the references I found there seem to
say that you have to be running in real mode to use the appropriate BIOS
functions.  I really don't know enough about this subject, but might it
be possible to take that code and package it in a real mode call from a
DJGPP program?  If anybody would like to attempt such a piece of code
and send it to me, I'd be more than happy to credit you in my program.

P.S.:  I am nearly ready to upload a preliminary version of DJVERIFY to
DJ's ftp site, but I still need to work on a few touches (such as basic
documentation and output formatting).  I'll be sure to notify you all
when it's up.

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