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From: s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Eugene Mok (Miramar))
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: QC42 and PC-TOOLS compress
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.152130.4326@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 7 Apr 91 15:21:30 GMT
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u9039899@cs.uow.edu.au (Darrin Jon Smart) writes:


>Has anyone tried to run the COMPRESS defragmenter at the same time as
>QuickCache (recently posted in cbip). Compress warns not to have any TSR's
>loaded but works fine under PC-Cache.

It's always a good thing not to have any TSRs especially disk caches running
when you're unfragmenting a hard disk. Boot from a floppy when you want to
unfragment your HD. Though I haven't had any major problems yet while
unfragmenting with TSRs in memory, I started booting with a clean system
when my friend had his HD trashed. Using PC-Compress and PC-Cache, both
from the PCTools package I assume, should be safe.

>While I'm here - how does one set up QC to use the first 256k of extended
>memory (1024k - 1280k)?

Sorry, can't help you here. I use Hyperdisk which I feel is a very good
disk cache program. I had a problem with QuickCache(an older version)
and decided not to use it any further.

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