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Looks like you used http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and it didn't work
all that well? Babelfish seems to work better with Spanish. Nearly
perfectly from what I've seen. I think it doesn't work well in German
because German uses compound words.
A 32-bit RAM DISK would work faster on scans. The problem is, even if
you have an extra 256 MB memory, do you really need it? How many
scans a day do most people do? In order for a RAM DISK to make a
difference, you must have enough separate scans to make up for the
additional time required to copy your entire database into and later
out of the RAM DISK.
With QP2.x, if you select several scans to run simultaneously, it will
run through the database one time and give you results for all the
scans. QP2.x won't go through the database multiple times, just
once. This is a fairly nice feature. Too bad they stopped supporting
Virtual. Their product rather sucks for MetaStock without this
feature. Like I want to spend an extra 30 minutes everyday outputting
in MS (right). I don't know if a RAM DISK is worth it, especially if
you have multiple 7,200 RPM drives. If you do use a RAM DISK, you'd
better have a battery-backup, or UPS, the way I do. This is
especially true if you live in California. Otherwise, you'll
definitely be hit by a power outage and then your whole database could
be toast.
Daniel.
John Sellers wrote:
> Group:
> This article came from a German magazine which I got translated to
> English. I was interested as well as other group members thus am
> sharing it with anyone so include to read it.If you wish to read it
> in German go to www.virtusoft.com and you may find it.
>
> By Matthias Carstens
>
> bypass VRAMDIR: (K)eine RAM disk for Windows 95 VRAMDIR unites the
> advantages of a RAM disk in itself, done thereby however without the
> typical disadvantages. By an ingenious trick it generally
> accelerates fixed disk accesses and thus Windows. Since there is
> Windows 95, many users look a genuine 32-Bit-RAM-Disk up, because
> the provided operates only in the 16-Bit-Kompatibilitaetsmodus. But
> it does not give until today.
>
> Instead the Virtual software corporation offers now however a
> beginning the unusual at first sight more ingenious on the second
> view for the use of the fallow-being situated RAMs. By Setup the
> user defines directories on his fixed disks, into whom from now on
> physically nothing more is written - all files land in the RAM. This
> principle eliminates at one blow all with usual RAM disks
> accompanying restrictions, like additional drive letters, specific
> cluster sizes and partition information. They prevent a dynamic
> groessenaenderung with DOS-BASED RAM disks. Too German: The RAM disk
> had to be produced with a fixed size. If it were not too small, it
> was excessive and occupied unnecessarily much RAM.
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