Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 18:42:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
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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.