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- Subject: Ramdisks
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- Whatever you do, do not buy a ramdisk, unless you are rich... There are
- a few ramdisks available through the public domain which are very good.
- Here are some, and their features:
- Mike's ramdisk(my own): works with ROM TOS and is reallocatable to the
- extent of the GEMDOS bugs. Uses drive D, and will allow you to change
- resolutions if you do not load in any other desk accessories when you
- change the resolution (including itself). This is version 0.95
- Intersect Ramdisk: From Florida, allows the use of drive c, d, e, but not
- at the same time. Shows free memory (which doesn't work right all the
- time), and allows you to reallocate without losing bytes (per
- GEMDOS bug). I have found this to be nice, but I have had troubles
- with it. Also a desk accesory.
- Various ramdisks labeled RMDK709, RMDK300...: These install themselves as
- Desk accesories, and are there all the time, ie. you boot with it
- and it is present. Not deselectable, but they are small programs.
- Mike's and Intersect allow you to allocate a ramdisk of any size up to
- the extent of your memory. Mine is about 8K, Intersect is 12K with a
- 2K resource file that must be used with it.
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- Non-public domain ramdisks include (the first) MDisk (by michtron)
- program once and it sets up a ramdisk. You can run it as many tim
- run the program once for drive C, twice to add drive D, etc. Use very little
- ram space since it does a terminate and stay resident call to protect the
- read/write vectors. You can not change the resolution at all.
- Duto folder... ok...
- When you use copy2.prg, which transfers file to a ramdisk, you can have files
- Dmatically into the ramdisk when you boot up, and after you allocate
- the ramdisk.
- A-ram (from Antic): another from the desk accesories... from what I heard it
- is alright...
- Solar-Ram: who knows... supposedly the entire solar-pak with all its utilities
- is pretty nice (that's what I heard)
- So many others, it's not worth commenting on. Depending on what you want to do
- you can best decide for yourself what the best ramdisk is for you.
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- My next version will put the icon onto the desktop for you, assuming I have
- found the way to do it ( I can do it from SID)...
-
- On another note, are there any execs for the AS/9000N out there that can make
- receiving all these reader files easier. They contain so much junk in the
- header that it is a pain to receive and edit them. We use
- VM/SP 2.1, but will be switching to VM/SP 4.0 very soon, now.
-
- Also, is there a way to transfer files (binary or otherwise) via BITNET?
- I would be willing to send my latest version, as binary.
- And, where do I get the articles listed in some of the letters, and what
- file servers at where have related info? (as you can tell, I'm a nubie...)
- Sorry if you got my previous message and it was junked, I am using a primitive
- exec for sending mail via BITNET, and it can only be used in the line mode, and
- I input all of the text as the 'Subject' (oh boy...).
- From Houston,
- Michael Vederman
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