Specifications

Most PToDOS opplicotlons
put you
into
BASIC ofter
you
choose
the
Quii option fiom the
Moin Menu,
If
the
RAM disk
is not
your
startup
device,
or
if
you
have more than
one
application
on the
RAM disk,
get
into the
BASIC
programming
environment
and type
-/RAM5/f
ile
(where
RAM5
is
the
name of
your RAM disk and
f ile
is
the
name
of
your
application's
system
file).
The
system
file is the
file with the
name ending
in . SYSTEM.
(For
example,
to start up
Apple\(orks
from the
RAM
disk,
you'd
rype
-/RAM5
/APLWoRKS
. sYsrEM.)
Soving
o documenl
to the RAM disk
You
can
save documents on
your RAM
disk the same
way
you
save
them
on a
regular
disk.
Just
remember that a document
saved on
a
RAM
disk
is
saved only
temporarily.
lmportont
Sove the contents of the
RAM disk to o regulor
disk before
you
turn
off the
power
or
your
documents
will be
gone
for
good.
If
your
application asks
for the slot and drive
number,
answer
slot
5
and drive 1
if
the
RAM
disk
is
your
startup device.
Answer
slot
5
and
drive 2 if a
3.5-inch
drive
is
your
startup device.
(To
applications, the
RAM
disk
looks
just
like
a disk
in a drive con-
nected to
slot
5.)
If
the application asks
for
a
pathname,
type a slash,
the
name
of
your
RAM disk,
another slash,
and the
name
of the
document.
(If
you
didn't
format
ttre RAM disk,
its name is
/RAM5.)
Using the RAM disk