Re: Faster MS Win 6.5 Explorations Using Cache???

["A.J. Maas" <anthmaas@xxxxxx>]

And then you should try out the Scriptit program, which also runs in the Windows
environment, but that will race through its script (like old DOS-batch).
One blink, and you'll have missed it (and the work is done).  

Regards,
Ton Maas
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Guy Tann <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: woensdag 16 juni 1999 2:04
Subject: RE: Faster MS Win 6.5 Explorations Using Cache???


> That's why I'm still using MS for DOS with a virtual disk.  What takes
> seconds on MS for DOS 4.5 takes 20 minutes of disk thrashing under MS for
> Windows.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nicholas Kormanik
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:10 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Faster MS Win 6.5 Explorations Using Cache???
> 
> 
> I, too, regularly rue the extreme bottleneck in disk activity when doing
> explorations, feeling that with optimal cache the time taken should be
> one-tenth, or less.
> 
> But, alas, I know of no way to tell Windows 98 to increase cache size.  I so
> miss the old days of Norton disk cache.
> 
> Is there a way??  Is there a third-party cache program that we can
> completely trust?
> 
> My system has 128 megs of RAM, and generally most of it sits idly, while my
> hard disk grinds away.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nicholas
> 
> 
>