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In article <DKB.90Mar16143956@anquetil.cs.brown.edu> dkb@cs.brown.edu (Dilip Barman) writes:
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>Really?  How can you define an OS/2 VDISK?  And why would you want to -
>wouldn't it slow down the machine due to less paging memory available?
>Dilip Barman     dkb@cs.brown.edu
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To define a VDISK you use the VDISK.SYS driver that comes with OS/2.
Any VDISK you define is visible from both OS/2 and the penalty box.
As for why, we find it help when doing large compiles to have the
temp files on the vdisk (thus avoiding paging all together).

			-Sean
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