Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:51:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to locate djgpp.env?
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Endlisnis wrote:

> 	Is there any way to make a RAM drive without rebooting your
> computer?  I want to use a RAM-Drive for djgpp, but I don't want to
> waste the memory if it isn't running.  I would like to be able to
> run (in Win95), some program that can load a RAM drive, then in the
> same DOS box, load RHIDE, and after RHIDE ends, kill the RAM drive.
> Is there anything like that out there?

There are several RAM disk drivers for DOS that allow you to resize
the disk size without rebooting.  They are on SimTel.  I don't know
about Windows 95, though.  FWIW, on Windows 95, my TMPDIR is set to
point to a real disk.  I find the performance satisfactory enough
(Windows 9X disk cache is quite good).