Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/02/03:51:59
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Endlisnis wrote:
> Is there any way to make a RAM drive without rebooting your
> computer? I want to use a RAM-Drive for djgpp, but I don't want to
> waste the memory if it isn't running. I would like to be able to
> run (in Win95), some program that can load a RAM drive, then in the
> same DOS box, load RHIDE, and after RHIDE ends, kill the RAM drive.
> Is there anything like that out there?
There are several RAM disk drivers for DOS that allow you to resize
the disk size without rebooting. They are on SimTel. I don't know
about Windows 95, though. FWIW, on Windows 95, my TMPDIR is set to
point to a real disk. I find the performance satisfactory enough
(Windows 9X disk cache is quite good).
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