Message-ID: <321BF5A6.BD9@gbrmpa.gov.au>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:52:38 +0800
From: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
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To: David Faure <david DOT faure AT bbsrc DOT ac DOT uk>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: lots of disk access when linking?
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> I think you should call a program like SMARTDRV to "cache" some
> disk-accesses. If you don't use it at the moment, you should just add it
> to your autoexec  (see FAQ for optimal configuration of Smartdrv....)

Or you could set up a small ramdrive, and point your tmp dir to it.
You could have something like:
	device=ramdrive.sys 4096 /E
which should give a 4Mb ramdrive (from memory...).

Leathal.