From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9610041405.AA12939@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Stub error messages (Was: Re: 'Cannot open')
To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 09:05:03 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <325473C3.5606@cs.com> from "John M. Aldrich" at Oct 3, 96 07:17:39 pm
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> say that you have to be running in real mode to use the appropriate BIOS
> functions.  

This is correct.  Even loading EMM managers will make these figures useless,
since they "convert" the memory to other types (XMS, VCPI).  Running from
a DJGPP program, you will alway have DPMI loaded, so even XMS and or VCPI
numbers might not be very meaningful.  Your best bet is to examine 
Int 15/XMS/VCPI memory before trying to run a PM program, which is why
my meminfo program was a TCC based image.