Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 10:11:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, I wrote:

> > 1) Which function is useful for the purpose?
> 
> __dpmi_allocate_dos_memory.

I should add that this advice is for systems other than NT.  On NT, 
__dpmi_free_dos_memory is known to crash the program, so if your program 
needs to run on NT, it's better to use the DOS memory-allocation 
functions via __dpmi_int.