Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!midway!chsun1!lee From: lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Dwight A Lee) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Question: only 639K available to DOS? Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 23:36:46 GMT References: <15894.27bbb58b@levels.sait.edu.au> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 12 xaandrews@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > Anybody come across the problem of only having 639K available to DOS? >The DOS MEM command reports only 654 366 bytes available instead of 655 360. This is often the symptom of a virus infection. It happened to me when I was infected by the STONED virus. You may want to have a peek at comp.virus to see what diagnostics and remedies are available. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dwight A Lee / lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu / T904107@niucs.BITNET / tCS/BB / Font I speak only for myself. / "I am not the only dust my mother raised" - TMBG