Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:56:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
Reply-To: Paul Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: nwcdex
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I see first of all that this list still doesn't use reply-to, and that I
have to manually edit the header fields to get this thing thing to go to
the mailing list instead of to Mike A. Harris.  I know we've had this
discussion before, but it *is* kind of annoying.

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:
> 
> > Is there some reason I cannot use INSTALL=C:\DOS\NWCDEX.EXE in
> > config.sys? It complains about drive letters. Does LASTDRIVE= not take
> > effect until the end of config.sys processing in OpenDOS?
> 
> Pretty much because NWCDEX should be in AUTOEXEC.BAT.

That is a matter of opinion.  Loading NWCDEX from CONFIG.SYS avoids the
matter of giving NWCDEX its own copy of the environment, and so it takes
up less memory (not much less, but it does take a few hundred bytes less
memory).  I am interested in finding out exactly when LASTDRIVE and
other switches take effect.  Is it a bug or a feature?

Paul Brannan
brannanp AT musc DOT edu