On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
[SNIP]

> CWSDMPI insists on creating a swap file even when there is no demand for
> additional memory. The location of the file is hard-coded into the binary.
> While, UNZIP can usually extract files without needing that swap, it will
> complain if the specified drive does not exists. If the hard-coded drive
> does exist, then the swap is created automatically.
>
> As far as I know, there is no ability to provide CWSDPMI with a command
> line option to temporarily use an alternate location. I think that you must
> use the configuration tools for CWSDMPI to change the hard-coded location
> for the swap.
>
[SNIP]

Swapfile can be disabled.  Location of the swap file can also be changed.
https://github.com/jayschwa/cwsdpmi/blob/master/bin/cwsdpmi.doc#L69-L73
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