Message-ID: <325473C3.5606@cs.com> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 19:17:39 -0700 From: "John M. Aldrich" Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: DJGPP Workers Mailing List Subject: Re: Stub error messages (Was: Re: 'Cannot open') References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Why isn't the report along the lines of go32-v2 enough? Is it that > important to tell people "You have 24MB installed, but only 1MB are > available to DJGPP programs"? People usually know how many RAM they > have, and when they see "1MB free DPMI memory" message, they should know > by themselves, don't they? Well, basically what I would like the program to do is recommend to the user one of the configurations mentioned in the FAQ based on how much base RAM they have. I mean, it's easy enough to just say "Free up more RAM, loser," but I wanted to be a bit more descriptive. ;) This isn't really needed right now, but I would like to consider adding it in the future. I took a look at the URL that Morten Welinder recommended (http://www.uruk.org/grub/), but the references I found there seem to say that you have to be running in real mode to use the appropriate BIOS functions. I really don't know enough about this subject, but might it be possible to take that code and package it in a real mode call from a DJGPP program? If anybody would like to attempt such a piece of code and send it to me, I'd be more than happy to credit you in my program. P.S.: I am nearly ready to upload a preliminary version of DJVERIFY to DJ's ftp site, but I still need to work on a few touches (such as basic documentation and output formatting). I'll be sure to notify you all when it's up. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Plan: To find ANYONE willing to | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | play Descent 2 on DWANGO! | Tagline: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------