Date:	Tue, 24 May 94 09:09:33 -0400
From:	dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	meetze AT charlie DOT ece DOT scarolina DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: DJ's reply to my Page Problem

> So what does that mean?  Why does windows make a huge file(1 
> MEG) when in dos there is only a small file(50k).  I was 
> thinking that under dos I actually have about 2 meg of 
> extended memory when I run the program, but when I run windows 
> I usually have maybe 800k extended memory.  I guess that under 
> windows the entire memory space malloced is the page file, 
> where under dos the memory malloced is actual memory.  Is that 
> something like what you mean?

In both cases, just run "go32" and it will tell you how much available
memory it has for itself.  If you need more than that, you will use a
paging file.

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