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At 11:10 PM +0200 5/26/03, Emmanuel wrote:
> At 10:53 AM -0700 26/05/03, Jon Pugh wrote:
>>At 11:13 AM -0500 5/26/03, John A.M. Darnell wrote:
>>>I will soon be moving a project from OS9 to OSX. The present project uses
>>>a RAM disk. Does X have a RAM disk capability?
>>
>>With Unix VM, Disk Copy images are essentially RAM disks. When you
>> mount an image, it can be mapped into VM space, which is about as
>> close as you get to a RAM disk in Unix.
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> My unsolicited 2 cents: I think that it is not safe to run an
> application from a Disk Copy image. Any opinion around?
>
> Emmanuel
I do this all the time. No problems here. The only issue would be if
the application has to write to it's own directory for some reason.
--
Ruairi McFarlane
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