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- From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 help needed! comm and speed problems, etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.070336.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 12:03:36 GMT
- References: <BuDyJD.KL3@andy.bgsu.edu> <1992Sep11.052720.21425@ans.net>
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- In article <1992Sep11.052720.21425@ans.net>, db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes:
- > [help for dos communications problems]
- > It's dependent on the filesystem you are using. For any of your FAT
- > partitions (and the floppy), the DISKCACHE line controls things. The number
- > is the size (in Kbytes) of the cache, and the LW turns "lazy writing" on.
- > Check out the command reference (look in the Information folder) for more
- > details.
- >
- > If you have an HPFS drive, then the size of the cache is set in the /C: option
- > on the IFS= line that loads HPFS.IFS. Lazy writing is activated by running
- > the CACHE.EXE program (in config.sys, RUN=, or later from the command line)
- > with the /LAZY:ON option. It's enabled by default if your C: is HPFS.
- > For further information, see "CACHE" or "IFS (HPFS.IFS)" in the command
- > reference.
-
- The on-line ref says that DISKCACHE applies to HPFS drives also (search
- on "performance", then do "improving system performance", then check the
- HPFS entry). From what I've seen on this group, the information in the
- on-line ref is incorrect.
-
- --darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
-