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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Permanent Swap File
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.230221.15917@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 23:02:21 GMT
References: <10048@bunny.GTE.COM> <90320.121007YTHRROUS@MTUS5.BITNET>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <90320.121007YTHRROUS@MTUS5.BITNET> YTHRROUS@MTUS5.BITNET (Roger Rouse) writes:
>What version of DOS are you using?  I had a similar problem in trying to
>create a permanent file of D:.  I was using DOS3.3 with a Seagate Drive
>manager (which allowed > 32Mb partitions).  Windows didn't recognize the
>large partition as being a DOS partition, and wouldn't let me make a
>swapfile there.
>
>Roger


Using a disk manager under windows 3.0 is dangerous, but using it and running
a permanaent swap file is asking for disaster!

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