From:	"John Harrison" <jahhaj AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	installation and configuration questions
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Hi,

I've just installed DJGPP and the bash shell (from binaries) and I have some
questions.

1) I've set up a RAM Disk (using MS ramdrive.sys) but I can't get bash to
access it, ls e:/, ls e:\\ and ls e: all produce a 'no such file or
directory' message. How can I do this?

2) I've set my put set TMPDIR=E:/ in my autoexec.bat but I'm not convinced
that DJGPP is using this, how can I test this?

E: is my ram drive (obviously) and I can access it quite happily from a DOS
box. One thing I've noticed that may be related to the above two question is
that when I type echo $TMPDIR in the bash shell, it just prints E: not E:/.

3) How should I configure my machine to get the most out of DJGPP. I've read
the FAQ but I'm honestly none the wiser. I'm interested in having as much
memory as possible available to my DJGPP programs when they run. I have the
following specs, Window 98 SE, 128Mb RAM.

4) Finally one unrelated question. What should I do if I want my program to
allocate real memory only, not virtual memory. Just a pointer to the right
documentation would be great.

Thanks in advance,
john

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