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Date:	Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:22:05 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CHKDSK/SYS3175

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In <3E347A63.A6AF62C@attglobal.net>, on 01/26/03
at 05:06 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

>I never knew that the CHKDSK program used the SWAPPER directory to help
>it work with large partitions. Now, when I boot, using floppies, I can

That's not quite what's happening. Chkdsk does not use swapper.dat
directly. What happens is the MEMMAN and SWAPPATH commands affect the
amount of linear and physical address space available to applications. A
standard diskette boot does not swap, so all the shared code in DLLs has
to remain in memory. This leaves less room for chkdsk's private code and
data. The exception occurs because some resource request is failing and
chkdsk is not handling the failure cleanly.

Steven

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