From:	J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: PROGRAM WON'T WORK THROUGH WINDOWS 95
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:01:16 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 b52g AT usa DOT net wrote:
> 
> > If you use go32 to report the number of free physical pages,
> > then be aware that this value is not guaranteed to be correct
> > under all DPMI servers, and windows might be reporting -4096k
> > to your function.

I meant one of the go32 service functions.
In fact, the one I was refering to was a DPMI service, not go32.

IIRC it is called dpmi_get_free_memory_info
The field reporting the number of free physical pages is not guaranteed
to be present.
Under PMODE./DJ and the (experimental) Caldera DPMI server, the result
is -1, which reports -4096 bytes free.

> 
> Please describe when does go32-v2 report such numbers, and what
> is the version of go32-v2.exe.  I have never seen it lie about
> the DPMI memory.

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