Date:	Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:45:58 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: GO32=topline
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:30:21 +0100 (MET)
> 
> v1 had a nice feature in that you coud do "set GO32=topline" to get
> status of the program while it's running. Is there something like that
> in v2?

No.

> If not, would it be possible to implement it?

V1's go32 was the Extender God, so it saw each memory allocation and
mode switch.  In v2, we are at the mercy of the DPMI host.

As DJ says, some of the info is avaiable in various low-level places
of the library, like sbrk and __dpmi_int, but that's not bullet-proof,
since someone may issue the relevant instructions directly in inline
assembly.

I guess this never got the necessary priority to make it happen.

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