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Subject:	Re: FreeDOS, cannot open swap file cwsdpmi.swp
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On Oct 26, 9:13 pm, Rugxulo <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Oct 26, 7:25 pm, jimm <jmich DOT  DOT  DOT  AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am making bootable floppies and a bootable cd-rom.
> > I want to completely eliminate the possibility of CWSDPMI using swap.
> > how do I compile/link/code/whatever my programs so that this is so?
> > I can't expect any hard disks to have a partition on it.  c: may be
> > actually an eltorito cdrom, so It may not necessarily be writable.  I
> > want to completely rely on RAM, there's plenty of it to go around!
>
> Since apparently you're using CWSDSTUB.EXE, you'll have to use
> CWSPARAM.EXE (or similar) to change the default path "c:\cwsdpmi.swp"
> to something invalid, e.g. "" (nothing), which (IIRC) by default will
> just put a '\0' in the drive byte of the path.
>
> Otherwise, you can disable at runtime, e.g. "lh cwsdpmi -p -s-" or
> similar.

how *exactly* do I do that with cwsparam?  do I use this instead of
cwsdstum or in addition to, or what's going on here?  help me out.
the manual doesn't work.

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