\spool\unbatch -> ramdisk ???

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4 total messages Started by Kennelmeister Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:49

#3128

Author: Kennelmeister
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:49

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Has anyone had any success with dos waffle aliasing the
\spool\unbatch directory to a ramdisk?

I tried using MD-DOS 5 alias, and a 1.5Mb ramdrive, but it wouldn't
work.

(My feedsite feeds me compressed 500k newsbatches)

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Re: \spool\unbatch -> ramdisk ???

#3142

Author: William Ross
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:46

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dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:

> Has anyone had any success with dos waffle aliasing the
> \spool\unbatch directory to a ramdisk?
> I tried using MD-DOS 5 alias, and a 1.5Mb ramdrive, but it wouldn't
> work.

Why not just set the d:/spool option to the ramdisk, and set the /outbox
option to a harddrive so it won't default to the ramdisk. There doesen't
appear to be a way to override the specfic /unbatch, where /unbatch would
be on the ramdisk and the /batch would be on more permanent media.
I imagine you'd want this kind of setup rather than chancing outgoing mail
to a ramdisk that could disappear.

> I tried using MD-DOS 5 alias, and a 1.5Mb ramdrive, but it wouldn't
> work.         ^^^^^^^^

What's MD?

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Re: \spool\unbatch -> ramdisk ???

#3152

Author: Mike Shirley
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:30

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dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:

> Has anyone had any success with dos waffle aliasing the
> \spool\unbatch directory to a ramdisk?
> 
> I tried using MD-DOS 5 alias, and a 1.5Mb ramdrive, but it wouldn't
> work.
> 
> (My feedsite feeds me compressed 500k newsbatches)

I've used a RAMDRIVE for /spool on both a 4.77 XT and now my
386DX.  It worked fine.  In fact, as soon as I get 4 more Meg of
Ram, I will go back to using /spool on the RADMDRIVE.  Saves a
whole bunch of disk chruning and does process news a tad faster.

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Re: \spool\unbatch -> ramdisk ???

#3233

Author: Richard McCombs KB5SNF
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:11

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mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:

> I've used a RAMDRIVE for /spool on both a 4.77 XT and now my
> 386DX.  It worked fine.  In fact, as soon as I get 4 more Meg of
> Ram, I will go back to using /spool on the RADMDRIVE.  Saves a
> whole bunch of disk chruning and does process news a tad faster.
>
What is you have a power failure?  I can see using a ramdrive for
/spool/unbatch but having everything under spool in a ramdrive seems
very risky.

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