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From: forrest@orion.sybase.com (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Quattro Pro question
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Date: 17 May 91 18:25:54 GMT
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In article <1991May14.150748.8396@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes:
>I'm running Quattro Pro on an old AT with 512K, which isn't really 
>enough memory for it to run well.
>I'd like Quattro to use the ram disk 
>for its temporary storage but I can't figure out how to specify
>the temporary storage area.
>Any suggestions?

By temporary storage area I presume that you mean the area that
VROOM uses for temporary storage. I had the same question myself
so I called Borland. To my surprise, they said that you have no
choice. VROOM always uses the current disk. What surprised me
even more was that they said that you shouldn't use a disk cache
on this disk, even with write-through. This makes no sense. And,
what surprised me more than anything was that the guy I talked to
didn't seem to see the benefit in allowing the user to specify
which disk VROOM should use.

Although I like Borland products a lot I think they blew it on
this one. Maybe a different tech support person would have been
more enlightened.

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