stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) (05/14/91)
I'm running Quattro Pro on an old AT with 512K, which isn't really enough memory for it to run well. Even with very small spreadsheets, the program is constantly writing and retrieving data to the hard disk. I have a lot of non-expanded, non-extended memory that I'm using for a large ram disk. I'd like Quattro to use the ram disk for its temporary storage but I can't figure out how to specify the temporary storage area. I would just move the whole program to the ram disk if there was room, but there isn't. Any suggestions? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Stone BITNET: stone@cunixc Columbia University INTERNET: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------
forrest@orion.sybase.com (Jon Forrest) (05/18/91)
In article <1991May14.150748.8396@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes: >I'm running Quattro Pro on an old AT with 512K, which isn't really >enough memory for it to run well. >I'd like Quattro to use the ram disk >for its temporary storage but I can't figure out how to specify >the temporary storage area. >Any suggestions? By temporary storage area I presume that you mean the area that VROOM uses for temporary storage. I had the same question myself so I called Borland. To my surprise, they said that you have no choice. VROOM always uses the current disk. What surprised me even more was that they said that you shouldn't use a disk cache on this disk, even with write-through. This makes no sense. And, what surprised me more than anything was that the guy I talked to didn't seem to see the benefit in allowing the user to specify which disk VROOM should use. Although I like Borland products a lot I think they blew it on this one. Maybe a different tech support person would have been more enlightened. ---- Anything you read here is my opinion and in no way represents Sybase, Inc. Jon Forrest WB6EDM forrest@sybase.com {pacbell,sun,{uunet,ucbvax}!mtxinu}!sybase!forrest 415-596-3422
ins845b@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr k.l. lentin) (05/18/91)
Try copying q.exe and the .vrm file onto the ram disk before you run q.exe The disk swapping is not really swapping of vroomm (2 m's) blocks but probably the reading of such blocks from the overlay file. (maybe I'm wrong but even if I am, this method will make the current drive the ram drive. |/ |\evin