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From: "Tony O'Bryan" <aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP and NT Alpha
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 20:04:16 -0600
Organization: Southwest Missouri State University
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Jeffrey N Woodford wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:23:29 -0600 Tony O'Bryan (aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu) wrote:
> : You have approximately 13M of available DPMI memory and no swap space,
> : but you're trying to allocate about 32M of memory (4,000,000 * 8).
> : That's why malloc is returning NULL.
> 
> Is there a way I can increase my DPMI memory amount?  I do have 256M
> of memory on this machine, after all.

I don't know about NT, but Windows 95 DOS sessions can be configured to
release more memory for DPMI through the properties settings.  Maybe NT
has the same thing.

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