Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:21:54 -0400
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: egley AT albany DOT net (Skip Egley)
Subject: go32 reports...

        
When I run go32 with no arguments I get the following output:

go32 version 1.12.maint3 Copyright (C) 1994 DJ Delorie
Lowest version I can run is 1.08
go32.exe usage: go32 [-d {debugger}] [{program} [{options} . . . ]]
go32.exe build time was Sun Dec 18 16:36:42 1994
DPMI memory available: 4412 Kb
Swap space available: 20440 Kb

Couple of questions concerning this output.

1) I know that I did the 4th maintenance release (which fixed something like
"access").  How come it doesn't report 1.12.maint4?  Does this mean the 4th
maintenance didn't "take"?

2) Is DPMI memory the same as free RAM?  If so, I think I'm being robbed.  I
have 16MB on my system and at the moment have about 6 windows open (4 of
them iconified), doesn't this seem a bit excessive?  Do these windows (and
windows itself) take up that much room?  I checked on the available
resources    and it reports 65% free, and that I had 28MB of swap space
available.  Also    don't  understand the difference between what go32
reports as available swap    space and what windows reports.

Oh, forgot to report, the only memory manager I run is emm386 (I didn't
think this mattered in windows - does it?).

BTW, thanks to all who replied about my DPMI question.  

Thanks again,
Skip Egley