From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How can I know free memory in bytes?
Date: 31 May 2000 22:13:29 +0530
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Yoram Hofman <yoram AT htsol DOT com> writes:

> My DOS program has to run a long time in stand alone system.
> So I am wonder to know about memory leaks. I am interested in a  more
> detailed
> information that the function __dpmi_get_free_memory() can give.
> The structure __dpmi_free_mem_info uses pages.
> Can anybody tell me the way to know about free BYTES?

A page is 4K long. So you just multiply by this value and you get what you
want. And I don't think there's any other way you could get this information
because when you are working in a DPMI environment, only the DPMI host can
give you the right information.