MS-DOS question

John M. Morris jmorris at dtx.net
Tue Apr 21 16:32:00 EDT 1998


On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, John Burke wrote:

> I'm always glad to see new iterations of this cache deleting process come
> around.  The question I have for all of you is:  does sticking one of these
> lines in your autoexec.bat make this deleting process take forever?

One hint is to make certain smartdrive is started before you do the
delete.  And make sure you have enabled write behind caching, some DOS
versions default to it and some don't. That can make a BIG difference in
the disk thrashing department.

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