Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM command curiosities

2021-07-16 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Robert, >>> 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

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM command curiosities

2021-07-16 Thread Robert Riebisch
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 >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM command curiosities

2021-07-16 Thread tom ehlert
> 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 doe

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM command curiosities

2021-07-14 Thread Bret Johnson
I personally use MAPMEM (from the old TSRCOM35 utilities) instead of MEM from either MS or FD. I find its output much more useful and informative, at least for my purposes. Here's an example of the output from my current VMWare virtual machine (running MS-DOS rather than FreeDOS, and loading s

[Freedos-devel] MEM command curiosities

2021-07-13 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
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 uns