valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) (05/04/91)
gordon@prls.UUCP (G Vickers) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.182716.27779@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes: >> >>Elvis seems to want a directory called \TMP in your root directory. >>If you have only one hard drive, that would be C:\TMP - I haven't >>tried running Elvis in D: or E: yet. >> > Since \TMP is for transisional stuff I would recommend NOT having > it on the hardrive. I set an enviromental variable to define \TMP > as being on one of my floppy drives , or I'll specify \TMP during a > program configuration. The goal is to minimize the number of short > lived files on the hard drive since this leads to fragmentation. It's > much easier to reformat a fragmented floppy. Surely, this is a joke... But seriously, I think what Gordon meant to say is that it should go on a RAMdisk. -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)
craig@med.unc.edu (Ron Craig) (05/09/91)
Dangerous suggestions from both of you! In article <1991May4.150418.25635@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes: >gordon@prls.UUCP (G Vickers) writes: >> Since \TMP is for transisional stuff I would recommend NOT having >> it on the hardrive. I set an enviromental variable to define \TMP >> as being on one of my floppy drives , or I'll specify \TMP during a >> program configuration. The goal is to minimize the number of short >> lived files on the hard drive since this leads to fragmentation. It's >> much easier to reformat a fragmented floppy. >Surely, this is a joke... >But seriously, I think what Gordon meant to say is that it should go >on a RAMdisk. > (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu) If you read the docs on Elvis, you will discover the purpose of this directory and file is to hold a copy of the currently-edited file. This is also how recoveries are made if either Elvis or your system crash. Placing this tmp directory on a RAMdisk is *dangerous* since having to reset your machine would mean losing your changes to the file for the *entire* last editing session instead of only the *last change* you made to the file. Be careful out there. Note also that if you have any autoexec.bat code to clear our your tmp directory on bootup, it should be careful *not* to delete elvis temporary files since rebooting your machine would otherwise erase these files before you could recover your editing. See the docs for more information. -- Ron Craig inet- craig@med.unc.edu CB# 8180 - UNC Chapel Hill bitnet- URONCR@UNC.BITNET AT&T- (919) 966-3681 Chapel Hill NC 27599-8180 My opinions are valued by UNC, not shared by them.