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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 14:19:03 -0400
From: Andrew Ellem <krand AT ican DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > In the Win95 Dos box go32-v2 gave me this:
> >
> > DPMI memory available         10671 kb
> > DPMI swap space available     2681 kb
> >
> > I have set my dos box's properties to "65535" DPMI and have 16megs
> > of ram and 100+ megs free on my HD.
> 
> Is the above report by go32-v2 before or after you set DPMI to 65535K?
> If it's after, then I don't understand how can that be.  You tell Windows
> to let you use 64MB of DPMI memory, so the sum of the two numbers
> reported by go32-v2 should be 64MB.  This is what I see on my machine.

That sounded reasonable, I had wondered why it didn't before.  I
realized
it was because I'm an idiot :)  I had set the DPMI to 64MB on the wrong
MS DOS shortcut, needless to say it works fine now (Although it only
adds
up to ~30MB).

> After you set DPMI memory to 64MB, did it compile from Windows DOS box, or
> does it still crash?

Nope, works fine.  Sorry to bother every one with my stupidity.

Thanks for the help!
--
Andrew Ellem
krand AT ican DOT net