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From: ajw@donk.UUCP (ajw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "How much memory left"?  call for MS 5.1
Message-ID: <345@donk.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 19:20:35 GMT
References: <215@intek01.UUCP>
Organization: DTE, Intel Corporation; Hillsboro, OR
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In article <215@intek01.UUCP>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
> I tried RTFMing and don't see a handy "tell me how much memory is left"
> for MS 5.1 (large model).  Does anybody know where I can get one of these?

unsigned paragraphs;
int maxavail;

_dos_allocmem((unsigned)65000, &paragraphs); /* ask DOS what he's got */
maxavail = paragraphs / 64;                 /* max contiguous K available */

> Thanks in advance.

Welcome.

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