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From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Memory hoarding
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:08:17 -0500
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Ghalos <greg AT holdridge7 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:7sij2b$pm0$1 AT news6 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk...

> When my game starts up I am thinking of grabbing all the available
> RAM I can but one thing I need to is what is the best way of doing this?

IMHO, "the best way of doing this" is not doing this. Grab memory
as you need it. The operating system needs it more than you do.

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Damian Yerrick
http://pineight.webjump.com/


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