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Documentation for SPACE.COM and FREE.COM
(c) 1987 by Mark Harris
Granny's Old-Fashioned Software
If you have a hard disk you may notice a pause as long as a couple
of seconds at the end of a directory listing before the free space
remaining on the disk is displayed. SPACE.COM is a small resident
utility which removes this pause by supressing the search for free
space. The value returned will be the available space when SPACE
was installed but the current free space can be obtained with the
FREE.COM program. If you have enough space left on your disk so
that you are not worried about filling it in a given session you
may find that SPACE improves your disk's performance noticeably.
Typing SPACE at the DOS prompt will disable the free space
search on drive C; if you want to override this default simply put
the drive's letter after SPACE. For example
SPACE D
will disable the search on drive D.
Once SPACE is installed the only way to remove it is to
reboot your computer. However you can always find the free space
on the last drive disabled by typing FREE (assuming that FREE.COM
is where DOS can find it). FREE will display the free space in
units of 1000 bytes; e.g.
8050 K bytes free
indicates 8,050,000 available bytes.