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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Geoff Armstrong
date: 1994-04-30 10:48:00
subject: large file

Hello Bill!

On 30 Apr 94, you said to Paul Edwards:

BG> There are only two minor inconveniences with using a temporary
BG> swapfile, the first being that if it is to be created each time you
BG> start Windows, you may not end up with the swapfile in contiguous
BG> disk space, and also, it takes a couple of seconds to allocate,
BG> slowing down load time.  Big deal.

I don't think windoze will allocate non-contiguous disk space for a
swapfile. If there isn't a big enuf contiguous block, it allocates a
smaller one, doesn't it?

Sea Ewes are round!
Geoff.

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