Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart
by hcs on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:38PM
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Some context from the beginning of the article for why this data would be moved in the first place:
> With the advent of upper memory managers, several utilities that save conventional memory by moving DOS system data into upper memory have become popular. Many of these utilities extend the System File Table (SFT), creating space for additional file handles in upper memory and linking it to the SFT chain. This technique can save as much as 14K of conventional memory, depending on the number of SFT entries moved to upper memory.
> With the advent of upper memory managers, several utilities that save conventional memory by moving DOS system data into upper memory have become popular. Many of these utilities extend the System File Table (SFT), creating space for additional file handles in upper memory and linking it to the SFT chain. This technique can save as much as 14K of conventional memory, depending on the number of SFT entries moved to upper memory.