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Name: Actor
Date: July 24, 2006 at 08:37:49 Pacific
OS: DOS 6.22
CPU/Ram: AMD-K6/32Mb
Product: Self
Comment:

My config.sys file has a line FILES=20. How big can FILES
be set to, and what is the penalty for a large number of
files?

Also, MEM repots I have 25 M of unused extended
memory. How can I get some use out of it. My first
thought is to create a large Ram Drive. What is the
penalty for a large Ram Drive ?



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Response Number 1
Name: inverto
Date: July 24, 2006 at 09:02:22 Pacific
Reply:

http://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm

http://www.geocities.com/politalk/rmdrv/dos.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/msdos/01_intro.mspx?mfr=true


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Response Number 2
Name: jboy
Date: July 24, 2006 at 14:25:49 Pacific
Reply:

If you have 622, you'll have the DOS 'Help' program - - that's what it's for, and fairly comprehensive

The 'penalty' (as always) in having more things loaded, or maxing out settings is the amount of memory used - conventional and/or upper, depending

You are, once again, Microsoft's bitch


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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: July 24, 2006 at 21:54:27 Pacific
Reply:

You could run memmaker. That will configure your config.sys and autoexec.bat files for more efficient RAM usage.


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