Subj : Pascal help/sorce
To : Dennis Collins
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Jun 26 2006 11:50 pm
DC> I need some assistance with a program that is under
DC> devolopment.......
DC> The program needs to automatically create a 8096 byte Ram Drive
DC> upon startup and then Remove it when it exits, this is for a bbs
DC> door game so as to allow Internode semaphore data to be passed
DC> between nodes without using disk access.
i would not be trying to use a ram drive for this... it just won't work from
task to task on the same machine and definitely not over multiple machines...
what i'd do would be to either use the "ICA" (Interprocess Communication Area)
which i believe FrontDoor and a few other programs use(d?) or come up with
another method of temporary file storage of the semaphore info... i surely
wouldn't worry about ram drive type stuffs with the over(?) abundance of
cacheing that is used on most every OS these days... especially since the cache
will mask any bottlenecks of reading/writing to the drive...
