On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:34:07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Glenn,
> very interesting to read your batch file.
> There is just one part I do not understand.
>> PKUNZIP -d -o e:\ARACHNE\MAIL\!AR!MDIR.ZIP l:\
>> if "%1"=="mail" PKUNZIP -d -o E:\ARACHNE\MAIL\!AR!MAIL.ZIP l:\
> Why do you I need to have the mail directories on the RAM disk
> if I am going to movem them to the harddisk afterwards?
The simple answer..... Speed.
Have you ever seen how fast things work when done on RamDrive? ;-)
BTW,
!AR!MAIL.ZIP contains my mail archive of old messages.
So if I run "arr.bat mail", the archive is unzipped to RamDrive so that
I can view a message from last week. (or from 2 years ago) <g>
--
Glenn
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