Releasing RAM-DISK to free system memory

bobmon at iuvax.UUCP bobmon at iuvax.UUCP
Fri Jan 23 11:16:10 AEST 1987


>Does anyone know how to release a RAM-Disk to give me more system memory?
>In particular, I'm using an ATT 6300 with the supplied RAM-Disk software.
>	[...]
>                                               Glenn S Piper

I don't know if that can be done in general -- but here's a program (which I
got off this newsgroup; history repeats...) that makes a removeable RAMdisk.
I've used it enough to know that it works, at least in normal memory.  The
ARC contains a device driver, a .COM file, documentation, and some trivial
.BAT files.

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