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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
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Subject: Re: ShrinkIt 1.0 Limits
Message-ID: <8903072220.AA00695@batman.moravian.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 89 22:20:14 GMT
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>>There are a few limits that ShrinkIt has that everyone needs to be aware of.
>>I got a bug report back tonight after someone tried to archive their entire
>>hard drive and then found that they couldn't extract all the files.

> Andy, I hope version 1.0 does not kill the /ram drive without at least 
> a warning that it is going to ignore and destroy anything that might be
> there.  I'm a little suprised that I have not seen anyone else mention
> this in the discussion over the last couple of weeks.

I knew I forgot to put something in the docs.  ShrinkIt 1.0 will not
disconnect your ram disk if the software is written properly.  So far,
I know that Glen Bredon's ram disk software works, as does Checkmate's and
Applied Engineering's.  ShrinkIt 1.0 will not diconnect your ramdisk as
long as the ramdisk in question does *NOT* use the lower 64k of aux memory
commonly referred to as bank $01)

> -- 
> Larry Colton                {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!ldcol
>
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