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|    Re: EXE program stack setup questions    |
|    18 Oct 18 08:21:29    |
      From: address@nospicedham.not.available              Rick,              > There's no way to know how much memory is there though.              Actually, there is: just look into the MCB preceeding the PSP. The second       and third bytes hold the size (in segments) of the allocated block.              Its just that resizing by using INT 21 AH=4Ah swats two flies in one go: It       either gives you what you want (and thats that), or when failing tells you       whats left (and you can either bail out or try to remedy the problem).              Regards,       Rudy Wieser              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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