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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ncar!csn!nugget.rmNUG.ORG!nugget.rmNUG.ORG!scott
  3. From: scott@corybant.rmnug.org  (Scott Meyer)
  4. Subject: Re: RAMDISK
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.034531.12358@nugget.rmNUG.ORG>
  6. Sender: scott@nugget.rmNUG.ORG
  7. Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
  8. References: <92224.120114MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:45:31 GMT
  10. Lines: 16
  11.  
  12. In article <92224.120114MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu> <MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
  13. >    There are occasions where largish files get written to disk and t
  14. > then read right back in again.  System builds, for example, write .o files
  15. > and then read them back.  (Does NeXT write intermediate files, too?)
  16. > 
  17. > [...]
  18. > 
  19. >       In short, there should be a way to create memory resident files
  20. > which aren't synced to disk unless absolutely called for.
  21.  
  22. There is.  It's called creat().
  23.  
  24. -Scott
  25. -- 
  26. Scott Meyer
  27. scott@corybant.rmNUG.ORG - NeXT mail is welcome.
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