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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 94 02:22:18 EST
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: mrb AT robots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Disabling use of disk as free store.
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> Frankly I would rather my program exited immediately when it ran out
> of memory rather than continue at snails pace using the disk (although
> I can see the feature might be extremely useful).

I haven't tried this, but perhaps if you pointed the go32tmp environment
variable at a non-existent disk or subdirectory it might crash when
attempting to swap.

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