Re: STACKER question

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From: robert.k.nichols
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:49

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In article <1993Jan22.192654.7710@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>From jswilson@mta.ca (SCOTT_WILSON)
>>How can I turn off my cache on my computer... Stacker
>>when you go into compress the drive says to turn off the disk cache
>>when compressing the drive
>>I use Himem.sys and smartdrv.sys
>
>    Put "rem" in front of the line that loads smartdrv.sys, reboot, and
>install Stacker.  Then take the "rem" out afterwards.

Why go to all that bother.  The command "smartdrv c-" will disable caching
for the C drive.  I'm not running Stacker, but I haven't yet encountered a
cache-sensitive program that isn't happy with this methof of turning off
SMARTDRV.

Bob Nichols

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