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Re: RAMDISK

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From: Scott Meyer
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:45
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In article <92224.120114MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu> <MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>    There are occasions where largish files get written to disk and t
> then read right back in again.  System builds, for example, write .o files
> and then read them back.  (Does NeXT write intermediate files, too?)
> 
> [...]
> 
>       In short, there should be a way to create memory resident files
> which aren't synced to disk unless absolutely called for.

There is.  It's called creat().

-Scott
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From: scott@corybant.rmnug.org  (Scott Meyer)
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