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From: cpp@cci632.UUCP (Carl P. Petito)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: popen()
Message-ID: <35002@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 90 13:56:11 GMT
References: <1503@loria.crin.fr> <25F00B67.17161@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <21231@netnews.upenn.edu> <348@comcon.UUCP> <1990Mar7.002520.10365@calvin.spp.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: cpp@op632.UUCP (Carl Petito)
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
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In article <1990Mar7.002520.10365@calvin.spp.cornell.edu> richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) writes:

>With 4DOS, you can set variable TMP to point to a ramdisk, and all pipe
>files will go there.
[stuff deleted]
>Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
>                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>ARPA: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu	
>UUCP: {uunet,uw-beaver,rochester,cmcl2}!cornell!calvin!richard

Is it possible to hack DOS (specifically 3.3) to create the temporary pipe
files on another drive (i.e. a RAM disk) rather than the root directory of
the current drive?

Carl Petito
Computer Consoles Inc
Rochester, NY 14609

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