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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: GlobalCompact and Free Memory?
Message-ID: <246400012@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 89 17:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Jun 17 12:59:00 1989


Hello.

I just got started on Windows programming, and bought a copy of Petzold's book.
As is my luck, I picked Freemem as the first program to try, and of course it
doesn't work. I have 4 Megabytes of memory, and the MSDos Exec confirms this in
the about dialog box. However, when I run FreeMem, it always tells me I have
280 K of free memory. This is what GlobalCompact (0L) returns, even after I
GlobalAlloc 280k! In other words, the function that I seem to be calling seems t
to be:

DWORD FAR PASCAL GlobalCompact (...

{ return 280L; 
}

I am using Windows/386 on a Gateway 2000 machine. Can someone please tell me
what is going on here?

Thanks a bunch in advance,

Milan.
.