##License

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ramdisk interface to use, eventually for cross-platform setup and maintenance of ramdisk, primarily for unittesting and compiling code.

Initial work done only for the Mac platform.

###Mac

Instanciating the RamDisk class will create a ramdisk that you can use - in chunks of 1Mb.

Initial work done only for the Mac platform.

##Future work:

###Linux

Ramdisk class that can use either current method for creating a ramdisk on Linux

###Windows

Will call a currently available binary to create a ramdisk.

Currently written/tested in only python v2.7

Future plans to duplicate in other languages as well.