Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:28:46 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: root AT darkstar DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: rhide compile.. In-Reply-To: <200002251029.PAA00740@midpec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Prashant TR wrote: > > >how do I configure a ramdrive....in autoexec.bat > > >to speed up compiling in DOS......?? > > > > If you don't know how to set up a RAM drive, > > just set up a large disk cache with smartdrv. > > Put this line in CONFIG.SYS. > > DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 16384 512 64 /E > > This installs a 16384K (16M) RAMDrive. Change this number as > required. > I use smartdrive to speed up compiles and IMHO it is better than ramdrive especially when write caching is enabled. Also there is no need to fool around with tmp environment variable etc. A command for setting up a 16 mb smartdrive disk cache would be "smartdrv 16000 c+" without the quotes. You can just type it into the dos prompt or add it into your autoexec.bat file. The "c+" bit means enable write caching to your c drive. If you have additional hard drives please add there number too, ie if there is a d: drive the you would add "c+ d+" to the above command. Then just relax and see how lightning fast the compiles turn out to be... :-) Grendel. Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)