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Re: Dos 5 - strange result from mem /c command

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From: Gene Toye
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 13:52
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In <3710@travis.csd.harris.com> leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:

>I was messing around with my recently installed dos5 and did a "mem /c" ... 
>interesting results ... a portion of my path statement is using 13.7k !!

>===>	  p;c:\net           14016      ( 13.7K)       36C0 <== mouse-supposedly

>Anyone seen this? ... any thoughts? ... looks like some kind of data 
>structure/array has been corrupted ... I wounder what else was/will be affected?

I suspect you have a mouse driver that deallocates its environment memory
block.  Several guides on TSR development recommend this as a way to
reduce TSR memory requirements, since most TSRs don't need an environment.
For this, it works well (I've used the technique myself in some TSRs I
wrote).  It does have the side effect of rendering memory utilities unable
to display the program name, since it is kept in the same memory block
as the environment.  Anybody have any other ideas?
>leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com         	Leo Hinds       	(305)973-5229
>Gfx ... gfx ... :-) whfg orpnhfr V "ebg"grq zl fvtangher svyr lbh guvax V nz n
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Gene Toye, Software Engineer                               gtoye@hp835.mitek.com
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Subject: Re: Dos 5 - strange result from mem /c command
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