Hi tom,
>> During some recent development work, I noticed that the FreeDOS MEM
>> command reports the TSR I'm writing is using one less paragraph than
>> its MS-DOS counterpart - it seems it does not account for space
>> occupied by the MCB at the start of the TSR's heap, while the MS-DOS MEM
>> command does.
>
>> I'm unsure if this was this intentional (e.g. maybe MCB memory is
>> counted somewhere else in the output of the FreeDOS MEM command) or
>> simply an oversight, but... there you have it. lol
>
> this is simply a FreeDOS MEM bug. it should report the exact same
> values as MSDOS MEM.
Exactly.
> almost irrelevant, but might be fixed.
Yes.
I also found other bugs, where FreeDOS MEM, e.g., reports 0 bytes of
free memory. But I never reported or tried to fix these.
Cheers,
Robert
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