Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/15/15:47:07
Many programs allow you to JUMP to DOS. Like <alt>+J and you can run mem
from there. I think I have installed TSRs that will allow you to see how
much memory is available. If I need to know this information or cheat in
a game to give it what stupid question it asks to get it started, I'll
install PCTools Desktop and can access DOS directly that way or use it'e
tools to see how much memory I have. I usually use it to read a text
file with the needed codes while I am in the game I am playing. There
are probably a lot of TSRs that allow you to do these things on Simtel.
You can download a big file from them that contains all of the DOS
software on their site and tells what the software does in text form.
you can read it offline and then go get the files you want. I haven't
updated mine in a few months now and it's on tape.
I thought maybe you were just looking at someones computer and they did
not know how much RAM was installed. That is what it sounded like you
were asking. It's the amount left available that you want to know.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Total memory?
> Pat wrote:
> >On most systems I have seen, there is a check for the amount on
startup.
> >It runs by pretty fast but it is there long enough to see it. It
shows
> >the number of bytes on mine and does not round off to megabytes.
> [...]
>
> Yes, thanks for all that information, but I did not explain very well
my
> question: I need to discover that information from within a program,
> or in other words I need a function that gives me the information.
> There are functions that tell me the available memory, but if
> someone has allocated a big chunk of memory (say for some
> buffer) my estimative can get fouled...
>
> Alain
>
>
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