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From: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fun with RAM disks (was Re: Improve response time with paths)
Message-ID: <634@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 18:05:44 EST
Article-I.D.: astroatc.634
Posted: Mon Dec  7 18:05:44 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 10:15:43 EST
References: <15000048@silver> <1199@lznv.ATT.COM> <2263@techunix.BITNET>
Reply-To: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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In article <2263@techunix.BITNET> steed%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Ze'ev (Steed) Shtadler) writes:
>In article <1199@lznv.ATT.COM> psc@lznv writes:
>>I do something similar with my C compiler.  Most of the time, I boot
>>off of the C: drive (hard disk), without a RAM disk.  When I want to
>>hack, I put in my "C boot floppy" and boot off of it.  The CONFIG.SYS
>>builds a RAM disk, specifies that C:COMMAND.COM is the command

	Why don't you get one of the ramdrive programs that don't
take up any memory (except for a small amount for the driver) until
you request it too.  The one I use lets you specify the drive and
amount of memory you want whenever you want with a special program
called setram.  You can also use it to deallocate the space from the
drive as well. then all you need is a batchfile in your bin directory
called something like autohack which will allocate memory for the ramdisk,
set up new paths and copy files into the ramdisk and beep when it's done,
(so you can grab a beer from the fridge while it's chugging along).
You can have a similar batch file tear down you hack environment.  

	This way you DON't need to reboot your system or even DEAL will
floppies at all.  (and it's faster)

--j

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