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This small DOC files briefly describes how SHEZ swaps itself out of memory to
make room for other programs. It also describes how the user can configure
SHEZ to perform it's swapping function.
When you configure SHEZ to swap itself out of memory when running other
programs, SHEZ first looks to see if your system has EMS memory installed. If
there is EMS memory, and there is a sufficient amount of EMS memory, SHEZ will
copy most of it's code to EMS memory then free up enough memory to run another
program. After the other program has ended SHEZ then swaps itself back into
memory.
If EMS memory is not available, or there is not enough EMS memory, SHEZ will
then use your DISK to swap itself out of memory. It allocates disk space on
the currently active drive and in the current directory. When SHEZ swaps to
disk it can conflict with some compression operations.
To solve this problem the SHEZCFG program not allows you to tell SHEZ, HOW AND
WHERE TO SWAP itself. The SHEZCFG program allows you to tell SHEZ the DISK
and DIRECTORY of where to build it's swapper file if it needs to swap to disk.
IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU CREATE A SEPARATE AND UNIQUE DIRECTORY ON
YOUR HARD DRIVE FOR SHEZ TO USE WHEN SWAPPING TO DISK. THIS DIRECTORY SHOULD NOT
HAVE ANY FILES IN THE DIRECTORY. USING THE SHEZCFG PROGRAM, TELL SHEZ THE
LOCATION AND THE NAME OF THIS DIRECTORY. THEN IF SHEZ NEEDS TO SWAP TO DISK
IT WILL PLACE THE SWAPPER FILE INTO THIS UNIQUE DIRECTORY, AND AFTER THE SWAP
FUNCTION IS COMPLETE IT WILL REMOVE THE SWAPPER FILE.
The SHEZCFG program also allows you to tell SHEZ to ignore EMS memory, even if
you have EMS memory installed, and always swap to disk.
Since these option are new in release 6.1
PLEASE RUN THE SHEZCFG PROGRAM AND SET THE SWAPPING OPTIONS TO YOUR PERSONAL
NEEDS.
The swapping options can be found under the ADDITIONAL SETUP INFORMATION menu
item.