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From: rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: making disk act like memory
Message-ID: <479@nrcvax.NRC.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 19:57:24 GMT
References: <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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Organization: Network Research Corp., Oxnard CA
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In article <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) writes:
>I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use
>the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded
>or extended).  
>
>Does anyone know that names of either commercial software or
>PD that will accomplish this?
>
>Thanks,
>butlert@mcmaster.ca


I have heard of a program called "Above Disk".  There are probably
others.  It emulates EMS on a disk.  It is slow compared to real EMS,
but it allows you to do things in programs (Lotus 1-2-3) which will
overflow to EMS, but not to disk.

I haven't used it my self, but I hear that it works.  

	--rick

P.S. I just had a thought: try using Above Disk to set up EMS to use
for a disk cache ;).

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