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Date:	Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:41:09 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SWAPPER.DAT location

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In <3D77FDC1.8B4BA7AA@charter.net>, on 09/05/02
at 04:59 PM, Ray Davison said:

>About the first thing I do after a fresh installation is send the swap
>file to the root directory of a junk partition. Is there any potential
>problem with pointing the swap files of multiple installations of OS/2 to
>the same location?

There's no problem. Swapper.dat is emptied/deleted on startup.

You do want to consider head motion when you place swapper.dat.

>swap file is zeroed on exit. Can swapper.dat get a different name when
>it is created?

No.

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