Re: Re: Running a program off a CD

The modules are not the only thing that need to be loaded into memory. The program itself is a couple thousand lines and there is a directory structure on the CD that is required for another part of it.

A ramdisk seems to be a good way to go, if I can find out how to do it.

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Re: Re: Re: Running a program off a CD by Courage (Parson) on Aug 14, 2002 at 16:52 UTC
Okay, (I just shared my experience)... But creating a RAM drive is very OS-dependant thing, and most OSes do not allow that... I can't imagine how ramdrive could be created on any of Win32 systems. (Yes, I imagine it is possible for Win95 after some fight with config.sys and rebooting, but this is way harder than creating just temporary directory via standard modules). OTOH initially you asked how to load your program into memory - I can share my vision on this. If your program needs something more (what is it, namely?) then there should be another way to cache that data (or part of it) into memory, using similar approaches. Courage, the Cowardly Dog things, I do for love to perl...	[reply]

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by Courage (Parson) on Aug 14, 2002 at 16:52 UTC

But creating a RAM drive is very OS-dependant thing, and most OSes do not allow that... I can't imagine how ramdrive could be created on any of Win32 systems. (Yes, I imagine it is possible for Win95 after some fight with config.sys and rebooting, but this is way harder than creating just temporary directory via standard modules).

OTOH initially you asked how to load your program into memory - I can share my vision on this. If your program needs something more (what is it, namely?) then there should be another way to cache that data (or part of it) into memory, using similar approaches.

Courage, the Cowardly Dog
things, I do for love to perl...

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