SYS(12) - Available Memory in Bytes

See Also

Returns the amount of memory below 640K that is available to execute an external program.

Syntax

SYS(12)

Returns

Character

Remarks

In Visual FoxPro, SYS(12) always returns 655,360.

SYS(12) is similar to MEMORY( ), with two exceptions:

• SYS(12) returns the amount of available memory in bytes. MEMORY( ) returns available memory in kilobytes.
  
  
• SYS(12) returns a character string. MEMORY( ) returns a numeric value.