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- These programs establish a virtual "ram disk", drive "E:", of
- various sizes, using space from the TPA. All that one must do
- is execute one of the MEM.COM programs, and a virtual disk will
- be created. All subsequent references to "E:" will deal with the
- ram disk. It appears that once installed, the only way to remove
- the ram disk is to reboot the system.
-
- Patching Procedure:
- In order to make A: through P: the default drive, patch the
- three addresses shown in the table below with the indicated bytes,
- using DDT, EDFILE or whatever (the addresses are the same in all
- four MEMx.COM files):
-
- DRIVE PATCH FOR ADDRESS DRIVE PATCH FOR ADDRESS
- 0208h 0235h 0356h 0208h 0235h 0356h
- A 41h 41h 00h I 49h 49h 08h
- B 42h 42h 01h J 4Ah 4Ah 09
- C 43h 43h 02h K 4Bh 4Bh 0Ah
- D 44h 44h 03h L 4Ch 4Ch 0Bh
- E 45h 45h 04h M 4Dh 4Dh 0Ch
- F 46h 46h 05h N 4Eh 4Eh 0Dh
- G 47h 47h 06h O 4Fh 4Fh 0Eh
- H 48h 48h 07h P 50h 50h 0Fh
-
- Application Note:
- Although the RAM drives created by these programs are quite small,
- they can be used effectively for small programs which do a lot of disk
- access. For example, Steven Greenberg's CRUNCH23.LBR contains the file
- CRINSTAL.COM used to install CRUNCH.COM and UNCR.COM. I used MEM24.COM
- to create a 27k RAM drive, and put these three .COM files on it. After
- the last install option response, CRUNCH and UNCR were installed in about
- 200 milliseconds.
-
- This same install procedure done on my floppy drive caused so much
- rapid fire disk access that I thought something had gone wrong. However,
- installation was finally completed in about 1 minute, 10 seconds.
-
- Patching and apllication notes by Paul Foote, 02/17/87