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From: | "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: DPMI-Alloc with 192MB RAM - how ? |
Date: | Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:59:11 |
Organization: | Aspen Technology, Inc. |
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Message-ID: | <379c93df.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> |
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> Charles, couldn't the program either (1) suggest a default supported > size based on knowing how much DOS memory there is, or (2) simply be > recompilable with options for different large memory configurations? CWSDPMI tries to do 1) right now - but it's hard to anticipate if the first program you run is going to want to use a whole bunch of DPMI memory or spawn off a tree 6 deep of children. You can use CWSPARAM to set any of the options (2) - but I agree it should be easier to use.
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