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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: using \TMP (was Re: Problem with Elvis 1.4 )
Message-ID: <1991May4.150418.25635@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 15:04:18 GMT
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gordon@prls.UUCP (G Vickers) writes:

>In article <1991Apr25.182716.27779@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
>>
>>Elvis seems to want a directory called \TMP in your root directory.
>>If you have only one hard drive, that would be C:\TMP - I haven't
>>tried running Elvis in D: or E: yet.
>>

>       Since \TMP is for transisional stuff I would recommend NOT having
>   it on the hardrive.  I set an enviromental variable to define \TMP
>   as being on one of my floppy drives , or I'll specify \TMP during a
>   program configuration.  The goal is to minimize the number of short
>   lived files on the hard drive since this leads to fragmentation.  It's
>   much easier to reformat a fragmented floppy.

Surely, this is a joke...

But seriously, I think what Gordon meant to say is that it should go 
on a RAMdisk.
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