Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:31:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Stub error messages (Was: Re: 'Cannot open')
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> It works fine on my computer, but for some reason reports about 80K more
> memory under a Win 3.1 DOS shell than in plain DOS with EMM386 (?).

One more reason to toss EMM386, IMHO.  I didn't try EMM, but HIMEM, QEMM,
plain vanilla system and Windows all gave exactly the same values. 

> In either case, it's about 400-500K short of the actual amount.

That would be the memory put aside for BIOS shadowing.  You can play with
disabling the shadowing in the setup to see if I'm right.  (Disabling the
shadowing usually makes your BIOS much slower, in particular the screen
scrolling crawls, unless the memory manager like QEMM can shadow for you.)