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From: marc@metapyr.UUCP ( The Karate Kid )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 swap file note
Message-ID: <936@metapyr.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 90 13:18:41 GMT
References: <25913@cc.usu.edu>
Reply-To: marc@metapyr.UUCP (Marc Paige - The Karate Kid )
Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <25913@cc.usu.edu> JRD@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) writes:
>
>	Has anyone else noticed that the large swap file created by Windows
>3.0 installation is a (large) fraction of the contiguous free space on drive
>C, but that it can be changed? I created a contiguous file on another drive,
>named it the same as the original hidden swap file and deleted the original.
>Windows continued to work. That also means one can create a swap file of
>any desired size by manual means (programming, copy with concatenation,
>subtrafuge with Norton's Utilities on an old unneeded file, etc).
>	Joe D.

Joe,
    Why not use the utility provided with Windows?  You can do all the
things you mention and not resort to subtrafuge.  Windows 3.0 has been
re-engineered to be very user friendly in most respects compared to its
predecessor.  I have been writing Windows apps for about two years now
and can understand the desire to use subtrafuge in making Windows fit the
round hole as it were, but they realy did a much better job this go round.

Just a sugesstion mind you, just a sugesstion.





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