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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SysEnviron and 32bit clean
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Date: 15 Feb 91 20:34:29 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.152919.2886@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, heddle@clas01.cebaf.gov (David Heddle) writes:
> 
> Some simple questions:
> 
> 2) How do I detect how much RAM is present (not how much is available,
>    but how much is installed) It's not part of the info in the SysEnv
>    record, and I can't find any help in Inside Mac 1-5.

There is a function called MFTopMem that returns the top of memory
to you.  It's declared (in Memory.p) as:

FUNCTION MFTopMem: Ptr;

This can be cast into a longint or whatever is makes sense for you.

-- michael


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