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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: How much space does 4DOS take?
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Date: 18 Feb 91 06:52:05 GMT
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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 1991 20:59:14 GMT

In article <91047.222138IO92203@MAINE.BITNET> IO92203@MAINE.BITNET (Scott Maxell) writes:
>    Transient swapping in 4Dos only works if you have a hard disk...
>otherwise, 4Dos takes up quite a lot of memory...

Bzzzz! Time's up. Wrong answer. Here is a quote from a 4DOS manual:

 Minimal Memory Usage

 4DOS requires less than 4K of your precious RAM for its
 resident portion (less than 1K with XMS swapping!), and can
 use EMS, XMS, or disk for swapping its transient portion.

Hope that helps to solve the mystery of transient swapping.

Tony
tporczyk@novell.com