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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ai.mit.edu.AI.MIT.EDU (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Auto Ram Disk
Summary: Yes
Message-ID: <2961@mit-hermes.ai.mit.edu.AI.MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 88 00:17:03 GMT
References: <9584@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <9584@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugptucha@sunybcs (Ray Ptucha) writes:
> 
> Does anyone out there know of a program that allows you to boot
> up your system with a ram disk installed complete with files in it?

My system is set up to do this. It starts with a reset-proof RAMdisk in
the AUTO folder on the disk I always boot with, then Moshe Braner's
AUTODISK (thanks Moshe!), which does a very fast transfer of the entire
contents of the boot disk into the RAMdisk. Obviously "everything" includes
the AUTO folder itself and DESKTOP.INF, so I wrote my own program, ZZZAP,
which kills the useless stuff and itself--I posted ZZZAP here a while ago.
What you put on the boot disk for auto transfer is up to you, but I put my
compiler and whatever I'm working on most intensively there. 

Not quite as convenient as a hard disk, but it's kept me going for over a 
year.