RAM drive stuff:
I found how to use RAMDRIVE.SYS with Win98. I put the following lines into CONFIG.SYS ...
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS /E 8192
Then boot.
This gave me an 8meg ram drive. It shows up with an icon of a caterpillar! (The Commander says it's an icon of a memory chip, but it looks like a caterpillar to me.)
This drive holds data through 'Standby', loses all with a 'Shutdown', (an automatic cleanup feature), is silent, and FAST.
Warning: With RAM drives, you lose memory for EVERYTHING else. Since I've plenty of memory (in my computer, anyway) the gains offset the loss.
Thanks for reminding me about this. I posted the question, people responded with help, and I forgot to post the answer. Did now.
Cheers, PW.
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