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Subject: How to convince MSDOS that my 1 MByte RAM isn't 0 bytes
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 03:25:45 EDT
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I am running Computer House's PCPRO (MSDOS) on a CompuPro-like
system.  Several programs I have tried to run apparently check to
see if enough memory is available.  Unfortunately, they are not
smart enough to distinguish 1 Megabyte of RAM from 0 bytes, even
though the obvious fact that they are running precludes zero RAM.

For the moment I have solved the problem by removing some RAM.  However,
I find this solution somewhat inelegant, to say the least.  The question
is: Does anyone know how to fool these programs into thinking that
there is only .99 Mbytes or something less than 1 Mbyte??

One of the offenders is a PCDOS program written in Lattice C which I
have managed to make work under PCPRO.

Jim Potter  jp@laml.arpa