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Concerning the demo of Jacques Deschenes around 14 Aug 97.
 Hello Jacques,
 I try your code for getting information about available memory.
 Here are the results on my pc and below those from Dos mem cmd.
--SNIP---
Jacques Deschenes wrote :
> Salut Jean,
> the number at offset 00h doesn't only give real memory it give
> the total memory including virtual memory.
--SNIP---
> 08h Maximum locked pages allocation =  3253 pages
> multiply this number by 4096 and you get 3253*4096= 13 324 288 bytes
> which is the amount of real memory or xms avaible to your application
> becaused only real memory can be locked ( as this term means don't swap
> it to disk).
> Hoping this clarify things,
> Jacques Deschenes Baie-Comeau, Quebec Canada desja at globetrotter.qc.ca
Hello Jacques,
Thanks for giving me these explanations. As you saw I am unaware of
memory handlings. It's clear now.
-- Jean Hendrickx. j.hendrickx at euronet.be

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