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From: wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Recommendations for cache under Desqview?
Message-ID: <1991May16.022630.20602@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 16 May 91 02:26:30 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Ok, I've tried: SMARTDRV, PowerPak, and Hyperdisk on my 386 compatible.
Although SMARTDRV is supposed to be the dummest of the bunch, under
Desqview, it is significantly faster than the other two (my "benchmark"
is a "make" of a program) -- or I should say that the other two become
slower than SMARTDRV under Desqview.
I have a 4Meg machine.  I tried these three caches with identical
size: 1Meg.

Has anyone noticed similar behaviour with these programs?  Has anyone
found an optimal set of options to be used with either Hyperdisk
or PowerPak?  (Since I already bought the latter, I'd be especially
grateful...sorry no monetary rewards :-)

On a related issue:  PowerPak comes with a command-line editor that does
not appear to work under Desqview.  Is there a way to make it work?

Any help would be appreciated.
Tom

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