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.
>
>  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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