Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pipe files on ramdisk (was Re: Question about compressing backups)
Summary: MKS shell knows about RAM disk this way...
Message-ID: <394@mks.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 16:28:50 GMT
References: <195@tijc02.UUCP> <2962@cup.portal.com> <391@mks.UUCP> <901@cblpe.ATT.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <901@cblpe.ATT.COM>, res@cblpe.ATT.COM (Rob Stampfli) writes:
> In article <391@mks.UUCP> alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White) writes:
> >Now, with the assumption of a RAM disk, and one which is large enough
> >for your largest pipe [I have about a meg] can anyone think of any reason
> >that the dos method should be slower in terms of time-to-complete?
> 
> I would *love* to know how to tell DOS that I am using a RAM disk, but don't
> recall ever reading that this could be done.  At least for command.com.  Is
> there a way, or does the MKS shell, for that matter, have a way of being
> told where to put the interim files created during a piped operation?

Command.com seems to put pipe files in the current directory.  (I guess
it was written before DOS had subdirectories?)

The MKS Korn shell uses the /tmp directory, by default.  So, one
technique is to use the DOS join command to join the ramdisk, say drive
E:, to C:/tmp.  Or, by specifying the environment variable TMPDIR, the
shell (and other MKS utilities) will use any directory you want for
their temp files. 



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