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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:43:47 +0300 (MSK)
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Subject: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...
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Hi!

23-ξΟΡ-2000 14:16 alainm AT pobox DOT com (Alain) wrote to <opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

 A> I made a small program to automatically set or change the FILES=100
 A> command in the CONFIG.SYS file. When it finds the command and it is
 A> smaller than 100, it is changed to 100; this works ok. The problem is
 A> happening when the command is _not_ present in small files that do not
 A> have the [COMMON] line and that do not have OPTION. I am adding the

     What is "OPTION"?

 A> command in the _first_ line and Windows98 doesn't recognize it if I boot
 A> only in dos mode.

     If you mean "Safe mode command prompt" then in this mode both
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are ignored. If you mean "Command prompt" or
"BootGUI=0" in MSDOS.SYS then FILES position in CONFIG.SYS when no [COMMON]
section presented have no significance.

     When sections presented then FILES position have no significance in
[COMMON]+selected section.

 A> Can somebody tell me if it can be safely and allways put after the last
 A> line or if it should be after or before some other command?

     AFIAR, when you execute CONFIG.SYS step by step then DOS show you in
which order it accepts CONFIG.SYS statements. Unlike DR-DOS in MS-DOS only
DEVICE statements order have significance.