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From: rhysling@news.colorado.edu (RHYSLING MICHAEL S)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Help with farcoreleft() in Turbo C++
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Date: 19 Feb 91 00:40:22 GMT
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I'm writing a program that does a lot of textfile processing.  For
speed, I want to do most of it in RAM, allocating the biggest block
I can.  I am compiling in the compact model (64k code, 1Mb data) and
chkdsk says I have 300k free.  However, the following call to 
farcoreleft says I only have about 61k free.

unsigned long memfree;

memfree = (unsigned long) farcoreleft();
printf ("Bytes free: %lu\n");

Can anyone tell me what's going on?  Please email replies.

Thanks in advance,
Michael Rhysling
rhysling@spot.colorado.edu u