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From: michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Using a RAMDISK setup
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 23:38:33 +0100
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:23:08 GMT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Brett Porter wrote:
> 
> > Also, are you just using RAMDISK.SYS from MSDOS, or are there some (free)
> > ones I can get off the internet? I have Win95 :(, which doesn't have
> > RAMDISK.SYS, but I do have MSDOS 6.22 at home (not here at uni.), just be a
> > while before I can get it.
> 
> First, there's a RAMDISK for W95, if you need that.  I don't remember
> the details, but search the DJGPP mail archives: somebody posted the
> info here a few months ago.

Win95 comes with RAMDRIVE.SYS. A nice Win95-compatible RAM disk can be
found in fu_rd19f.zip (or a newer version thereof). It's resizable while
you are in plain DOS, so you don't have to reboot a thousand times until
you find the optimal size.

Regards...
		Michael

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