From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject:	Re: Memory amount and PMODE
Date:	8 Oct 2000 17:52:55 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: > From: michael AT idisys DOT iae DOT nsk DOT su

: > The problem with virtual memory
: > is even deeper: this program starts from floppy to repair file system on
: > the local hard drive, so i cannot use default c:\cwsdpmi,swp, It would
: > be nice to have ability to enable/disable swap and change swap file path
: > (if there's a network drive for example) in the run-time

: If you are going to repair a file system, is it really wise to trust
: that file system enough to put a swap file on it?

Isn't that his point? He do _not_ want to have the swap file on c: as
he's repairing it. He wants to be able to point the swap file to a
network drive in that case.


Right,

						MartinS

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