Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:21:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Al Christians <achrist AT easystreet DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Keyboard Locks Up While Developing
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Al Christians wrote:

> This is curious.  My machine has 32 MB.  Mem at the DOS prompt shows
> 27 MB of XMS.

MEM is not necessarily telling all the truth and nothing but the truth.

What does go32-v2 print when invoked from the DOS prompt with no 
arguments?

> Is that not enough for developing a 1-person program
> with djgpp?

It should be more than enough.

> I'm writing makefiles with RHIDE, then running make from
> the command line because RHIDE also complains about out of memory
> when trying to make my program (50 modules of C++, about 5k statements).

Care to post the exact error message you saw?

> It seems to use about 10MB just to open my project.

So what is it to you, if you have 32 of them?