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From: fmartins@esoterica.pt (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: Re: NT ram disk
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>I don't get it.
>You needed a RAM disk when you had to use floppies. Expecially with the
>Amiga's appaling floppy disk performance.
Well, I have a 340MByte harddrive and a 2.1GByte harddrive and I use the Ram
Disk all the time. When I go to Windows, I miss it badly. It's great to put
temporary files (like when I want to copy a surface to another surface, or
save some motion paths that I need to assign to another 100 objects :) . When
I do this kind of thing I don't want those stupid motion/surfaces to be saved
anywhere, since I never will use them again), it's great to decompress .lha
files (or arj/zip/zoo) and get something from there.
Well, everytime I have to save anything 'just for a second', I use the RAM:
In Windows I have a VERY SILLY temp directory where I never know wich files
are really dismissable and which ones are there 'until I have time to look at