From:	JP Morris <jmorris AT calderauk DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: PMode Newbie question
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:08:37 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Please do not abuse the good will of people who provide help here by 
> posting questions for which the answers are already available and easy 
> to find.  This forum is NOT a free hot line.

In that case, I apologise for wasting your time.

Now, for anyone else who is interested in the reliability of the memory
interrogation functions, an examination of the source shows that:

__go32_dpmi_remaining_physical_memory()

returns available_physical_pages*4096, if it is nonzero, otherwise it
will return the total available memory in bytes.

However, under certain DPMI servers this will return -1 if it is not
supported, so it will still fail under these servers.

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