SimulTask and huge D: file

[harold.e.bamford]

In article <15749 at bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>The manual does mention (on page 3-13) that pseudo-volume fixed disk
>files don't shrink.  It doesn't give a workaround, though.  For this we
>will have to appeal to that rarest of resources, Common Sense(tm).
>
> 1. Create a new pseudo-volume by copying 'cdisk' to something like 'NEWD:'.
>
> 2. Edit your 'vpix.cnf' to point C: to your new D pseudo-volume, and D: to
>your old one.
>
> 3. Boot Simul-Task with this configuration -- if your old D: was not
>bootable, you may need to boot from floppy with 'dos -b'.
>
> 4. Use XCOPY to copy all the files from D: to C:.
>
> 5. Quit DOS and rename NEWD: to D:, deleting the old one.
>
> 6. Re-edit your 'vpix.cnf' to restore the settings for C: and D:.
>
>This will do the trick.  I recommend you don't use pseudo-volumes for
>applications involving a lot of file creation and deletion, because it's
>a pain to garbage collect the wasted space.  Use the UNIX file system if
>possible, or if the software balks use a physical DOS partition
>instead.

A wonderful procedure.  Doesn't work if you don't have enough space
in /usr however.  I suspect that copying D: (via unconditional
backup??) to floppy is the way to go...

-- Harold