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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 06:15:16 EST
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Gateway and Overflow
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- >From: Joel Lidov <JBLQC%CUNYVM.BITNET@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu>
-
- >Michael Dick writes of a problem with overflow. Are you using a RAM disk
- >or overflooding to an actual disk? I've had little experience using NB4
- >with large files on my GATEWAY 386 (DX, 25), but neither in 3.1 nor 4 have
- >I had a problem so far. I do recall someone reported a while ago (pre-4)
- >that an overflow problem went away when s/he changed from an actual to a
- >RAM disk.
-
- I was a protagonist in the overflow saga a few months ago. It's not
- necessarily a Gateway thing. To sum up:
-
- on NB 3.x, be sure that if you use _either_ c: or d: (or whatever your
- RAM disk letter is) you put the backslash (root) sign after "x,"
- after the appropriate two-letter code (I forget which it is now);
- I haven't looked into this in NB4.
-
- be sure your RAM disk, if you use one, is big; I was locking up at 512K,
- and switched to 1M (I bought PCKwik in order to have large RAM disk and
- cache share memory).
-
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- Robert Braham | Graduate School of the City University of New York
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