Douglas Connor babbled on in a message to J Enders:

 DC> I use one here that is 4 megs in size.
 DC> I try to let every program that will. 
 DC> Use it as a temp storage area.
 DC> dos with a set temp=e:\temp in autoexec.bat as well as
 DC> a set tmp=e:\temp, set pktmp=e:\temp
 DC> the reasoning is that it is quicker to w/r to this disk and
 DC> the files can vaporize without much trouble. (ie.. no power to ram)
 DC> Doug

Same thing here also:

Top's g:\>dir/w/p

 Volume in drive G is unlabeled      Serial number is 30B1:A8D0
  Directory of  g:\*.*

[ALLFIX.TMP]    [FD.SWP]        [FECHO.IN]      [FECHO.OUT]     [FECHO.SWP]
[IM.SWP]        [MLCHAT.PB]     [NETMGR.NLC]    [NU.SWP]        [PACKETS.FD]
[PACKETS.IM1]   [PACKETS.IM2]   [PACKETS.TM]    [SCHAT.TMP]     [SERVICE.TM]
[TEMP]          [TEMPDIR.BRE]   [TEMPDIR.EA]    [TEMPDIR.FV7]   [TM0.SWP]
[TM1.SWP]       [TM2.SWP]
             0 bytes in 0 files and 22 dirs
                 10,313,216 bytes free

Top's g:\>

I use SVDISK 1.18 for OS/2 to make a 10 meg 32 bit ramdrive...

       - Art - Team [ ProBoard / ALLFIX / Silicon / TopperWare ]

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