Batch file for clearing Netscape cache

[Michael Dargan]

Carol--


If you have more than 16 megs of RAM, consider making a RAM disk with a 
temp directory and setting that as your disk cache.  It's fast a blazes,
and is cleared each time you reboot.

Do do so, create a config.sys file in the root of your boot partition 
with the following lines:

device=c:\windows\command\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\command\ramdrive.sys 2048 /e

Then, create an autoexec.bat with this line:

md [d]:/temp

with [d]: being whatever drive is assigned as the ramdrive.

Then, set the disk cache in Netscape preferences to point at that directory.

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Michael J. Dargan                               office: 319 291 4496
Technical Systems Administrator                    fax: 319 291 6736
Waterloo and Cedar Falls Public Libraries         Waterloo, IA 50701

On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Carol Brown wrote:

> I'm sure at some point this has been mentioned, but I couldn't find it
> in the archives, so bear with me...
> We are running Netscape 3.03 (soon to be Netscape 4) on our Windows 95
> machines and I would like to know if anyone has written a batch file to
> automatically clear the cache and temporary files each time the machine
> boots.  We have a simple file for our old Windows 3.1 machines, but are
> in the process of changing over to all 95s and the file isn't
> transferring well at all. Right now, I am just going in weekly and
> clearing everything by hand, but it is a pain and would love to simplify
> this task.
> 
> I would appreciate any ideas anyone has!
> 
> Carol Brown
> Assistant Director
> Southwest Texas Junior College Library
> Uvalde, TX
> 
>