On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:34:31 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Mayayana" wrote
| "Shadow" wrote
|
|| RAMDisk.exe is actually a VB6 executable. The Microsoft Visual
|| C# / Basic.NET / MS Visual Basic 2005,7 and 10 files appear to be the
|| registration routine.
||
|
| Yes. I know it's VB6. I think we're crossing wires here.
|
| There's no .Net in Dataram's program. And the installer is
| not .Net. It's just an MSI.

I realized later that you're probably talking about the
newer Dataram Ramdisk. As I noted above, I'm using the
older version, which has no .Net and supports XP. Later
versions added .Net. Still later versions dropped XP support.
The basic functionality is actually a driver. But the GUI
uses VB6 or .Net, depending on the version. From what
I can gather, the version I have seems to be a thrown-
together VB6 GUI that mainly just existing as a front-end to
the INF file, so that the RAMDisk can be installed or
uninstalled conveniently.

My guess is that the author(s) is someone knowledgeable
about low level functionality like drivers but just grabs
what's handy for the GUI and installer. Or maybe told the
new guy to do it.

Probably.

Yes, as I said, I installed the version Paul recommended.
Later versions limited the size of the RAMDisk in the free versions,
and later still it appears support for XP was dropped.
The licensing routine was probably written by a third party,
and he chose a crappy compiler.

As to your other post, I'm a lazy "GUI frontend" programmer,
though I do my stuff in Pascal (Lazarus).
My frontend to wget saves a log, my frontend to youtube-dl has
radio boxes for the quality of the video.
I managed to DL your little program with -U "useragent"
"utility_link" typed into my wget GUI.
I quarantine ANYTHING for two weeks, then submit it to Jotti.
One of my "security" measures, nothing personal.
I'll give you feedback. Later.
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