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Extended memory size

• Posted by John Kinne <JDKINNE at MIAMIU.BITNET> Oct 09, 1996
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I am still trying to figure out how to get the Extended Memory Size.
A couple of people sent me code to compute *Expanded* Memory Size;
but I really need *Extended*.

My (old) DOS book says I should use interrupt 15 function 88.  That
always returns a zero.  I was wondering, Robert, if sometime when
you are talking to the Causeway Guy you could ask him if Causeway
is responsible for returning the zero; if so is there a way around
it.

To get my installer to work I have used the external DOS MEM
command and parsed the output.  That is a miserable solution
as the output of the MEM command changes in major ways from one
DOS release to another, the output changes in minor (but crippling)
ways from one DOS sub-release to another (someone forgot to
insert commas in the output in a subrelease of DOS 6 - I had to
make a revision to my installer after we discovered that, unfortunately
we had already cut 4,000 disks).

Thanks for the help

John Kinne