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- From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF)
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- Subject: Re: \spool\unbatch -> ramdisk ???
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 00:11:37 CST
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- mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:
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- > I've used a RAMDRIVE for /spool on both a 4.77 XT and now my
- > 386DX. It worked fine. In fact, as soon as I get 4 more Meg of
- > Ram, I will go back to using /spool on the RADMDRIVE. Saves a
- > whole bunch of disk chruning and does process news a tad faster.
- >
- What is you have a power failure? I can see using a ramdrive for
- /spool/unbatch but having everything under spool in a ramdrive seems
- very risky.
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