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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: EMS or XMS or Extended memory ram disk wanted.
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Date: 20 Mar 91 22:34:45 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.053950.13874@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:
>
>Really now, how about DOS's VDISK.SYS?  I think the switch is /E in order
>to use extended memory.
>

	That's fine if you have it (as I do at home, where, alas, I have only
640K), but neither of the DOS boxes I use at the office have VDISK.SYS; they
have instead a driver called RAMDRIVE.SYS which uses expanded memory.

	Now, you wouldn't want us to violate the terms of anyone's Microsoft
license agreement, would you?


-- 
Jeff Carroll
carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com