[Freedos-devel] Questions on HIMEM

2004-09-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi there, I have been reading the HIMEM sources, and have these questions. I am grateful to whoever can say something about these questions (which as usual are plain questions with no critisizing): (1) There is a /TEST option (not present in MS-HIMEM), and at the same time, MS-HIMEM implements

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on HIMEM

2004-09-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, tom ehlert escribió: Hello Aitor, (1) There is a /TEST option (not present in MS-HIMEM), and at the same time, MS-HIMEM implements a /TESTMEM:ON|OFF option to do this (defaults to ON). /TEST does a nice test by allocating, filling, testing, resizing,. to determine the reliability of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on HIMEM

2004-09-23 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Aitor, Yes, but my question is how does kernel know where the device header starts? MZ doesn't look like a correct pointer to the next device driver inside the file... 'MZ' is only an envelope around 'the real thing', specifying e.g. minimum space required, START POINT, size of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on HIMEM

2004-09-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, tom ehlert escribió: Hello Aitor, Yes, but my question is how does kernel know where the device header starts? MZ doesn't look like a correct pointer to the next device driver inside the file... 'MZ' is only an envelope around 'the real thing', specifying e.g. minimum space required,