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From: theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (George A. Theall)
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Subject: Memory requirements
Summary: How much memory does COMMAND.COM require?
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Date: 5 May 91 18:52:53 GMT
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  Is there a method to figure out, for a given DOS version, how much
memory COMMAND.COM requires to be able to spawn programs? I have
written a utility to gobble up of memory. Under DOS 3.30, leaving less
than 20K generates the infamous "Memory allocation error, Cannot load
COMMAND, system halted" message. Under PC DOS 4.01 though the magic
number is more like 29K. I presume this is because I'm not leaving
enough for the transient portion of COMMAND.COM. But how to figure
out how much is "enough"?

Thanks in advance,

George
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