Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/28/13:08:47
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 Alain M. <alainm AT pobox DOT com> wrote:
> it is sometimes not working at the first line in MS-DOS
> 7.1 could you imagine some explanation for it?
Sorry, I have no good explanation for it. I haven't seen this
occuring so far, but I very seldomly use MS-DOS or Windows.
Looks much like a bug to me.
What happens, when you put a number of spaces in front of
the FILES= statement? Arkady already suggested to check the
CR/LF sequence, so I guess, you have checked this already?
Are there any menu groups in the file?
> Where do you suggest placing it? (1) after HIMEM and EMM386
> if they exist, (2) after the last line, (3) ???
It shouldn't make a difference as long as there are no
menu groups. I usually place settings like this after
the memory management setup, because some memory managers
need to be loaded in the first (or one of the first few)
line(s).
If there are disk related drivers like DiskManager or
compression drivers (e.g. older issues of Stacker), some
of them must be loaded even before the memory manager.
(And, under DR-DOS, SWITCHES=, YESCHAR=, NOCHAR=, or
RESUMECHAR= statements should be placed even before this.
For SWITCHES=/N this is in fact a *requirement* to work
properly, as you're creating a security leak otherwise.)
Otherwise I would put FILES= in [COMMON], if not required
elsewhere.
Matthias
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