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From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: FreeDOS and DJGPP
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> however, I was wondering why when I was trying to boot from a floppy it 
> said it could not create cwsdpmi.swp - is it a large file?  I didn't 
> allocate any memory except an int and so a software interrupt with some 
> registers.

It always tries to create cwsdpmi.swp in c:\ - if your disk is NTFS format
you may not have a C:\ 

You do not want to create a file for virtual memory on a floppy.  It is 
only used if your program is bigger than physical memory and needs to 
page.  Almost all machines today have more than enough physical memory for
any DJGPP application, so it's probably not needed.

You can use cwsparam to change the location of the swap file, or disable
trying to create one.  You can also load cwsdpmi before running the 
application with the swap location on the command line (see cwsdpmi.doc
for more information).

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