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From: tj@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS pipe temp files (was Strange DOS behavior)
Message-ID: <263@mks.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 12:08:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.263
Posted: Thu May 14 12:08:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 06:47:43 EDT
References: <1293@ur-tut.UUCP> <2050@emory.UUCP> <3543@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 10
Keywords: DOS pipe temp-files
Summary: Use MKS Toolkit

In article <3543@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, ephram@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> 
> [This] whole discussion raises an interesting question.
> Is there a way to patch DOS to create pipe files on the c: drive?
> How about a RAM disk?  That would speed up things a little bit.

I suppose a patch is always possible, but i doubt it would be trivial.
Why bother?  Just use the shell in the MKS Toolkit, and put all your
temporary files wherever you like.  It is as easy as setting environment
variable TMPDIR.