Re: How do you make a RAMDISK?

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From: Gerry Swetsky
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 14:00

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>From melkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU  [Michael Elkins]:

> In article <18100@netnews.upenn.edu> parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Gary
> Parnes) writes:
> >What exactly do I have to put into my config.sys/autoexec.bat
> >to make a Ramdisk?  I have 1 Meg of memory, so that 384K is just
> >sitting around often.
> 
> You need to put this into your CONFIG.SYS:
> 
> DEVICE=[drive:\] RAMDRIVE.SYS [DISKSIZE] [SECTORSIZE] [ENTRIES] [/E]
> 
    It also helps if Gary has the file RAMDRIVE.SYS on his drive,
    which he probably doesn't!

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