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- From: bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin)
- Subject: Re: RAMDISK.COM without RAM?
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 02:01:37 GMT
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- In a previous article, bn137@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marek Tomczyk) says:
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- >
- >Thinking about PhBills problems with Quick I wonder what happens
- >when you boot a disk with the file RAMDISK.COM on it while
- >your computer has no extra RAM?
- >Does the DOS 2.5 skip this file on non XE systems ?
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- >Marek
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- Yes, it just skips right by it... Once I had a 130XE (before it got killed
- by a Lightning? surge :( ), and I still have my trusty old 800... When you
- boot up a disk with RAMDISK.COM,it seems to ignore it, it just goes to the
- DOS menu like normal, no D8:, no nothin!
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- Steve Lin
- bp112@cleveland.freenet.edu
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