MACSCRPT Archives

May 2003

MACSCRPT@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: RAM disk
From:
Jon Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 26 May 2003 10:53:58 -0700
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (8 lines) 
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.

Jon

ATOM RSS1 RSS2