From: Derek Greene <topcoder AT mindspring DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:00:01 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > Strangely, on my machine when I set the Win95 DPMI properties to auto,
> > go32-v2 claims I have 24 meg free! Do you think Win95 is lying to me, or
> > could my version default to something other than 16 meg?
> 
> I don't think you can easily deduce what does "Auto" mean, and I'm not
> aware of any piece of Microsoft documentation which clarifies this.
> 
> For example, on my machine, I get 64MB with "Auto", but I suspect that
> this is because two other DOS boxes were running at the time I tested
> that, each one of them asking for 64MB.  It might be that 16MB is
> given by "Auto" if no other DOS box asks for more.
> 
> Either way, leaving that setting at "Auto" means you are at Windows'
> mercy.
umm good rule of thumb that i always follow, dont trust the system,
after all, your system only does what it is told to do

IOW, DONT SET IT TO AUTO!!! :)

but that is just my opinion...