Some RAMdisk solution?

[Oliver]

From the application that I'm developing, I have a need to call extern
application (16-bit DOS program). That application can receive input data
from file specified in command line. Similar, output data could be written
in file also specified in command line. From my application I'm creating
input file, call the program, then read output file. Since I need very
intensive communication (many calls of external application during run
time), multiple file creation on hard disk and their reading dramatically
decreases performance of my application. Smarter scheduling could maybe
improve performance, but not enough.

Changes in extern application could not be done, because it's a freeware
program written long time ago, and I couldn't get source for it.

I'm wondering is there a way to use RAM instead of hard disk for this
communication. I would like to create some kind of RAMdisk partition
run-time (without restarting whole system, please) on which I would create
intermediate 'files'.

Does anybody have experience with this issue? Is maybe any commercial
solution available?

Any help will be appreciated.

Oliver

 

[Oliver]

Yes, I realize now that was gone off-topic, so I apologize to all.
I sent my question to microsoft.public.win2000.file_system newsgroup,
so let's hope that address is correct this time.
I apologize once more for flooding this group.

Greetings,
Oliver