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From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:22:43 -0200
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Alain wrote:
> 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
Arkady Belousov wrote:
AB>     What is "OPTION"?

Sorry I, I meant [MENU].
>
> A> command in the _first_ line and Windows98 doesn't recognize it if I
boot
> A> only in dos mode.
AB>     If you mean "Safe mode command prompt" then in this mode both
AB>CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are ignored. If you mean "Command prompt"
or
AB>"BootGUI=0" in MSDOS.SYS then FILES position in CONFIG.SYS when no
[COMMON]
AB>section presented have no significance.

I meant exacly Command prompt" or "BootGUI=0".

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

I am having problems only in small Config.sys files (usualy the one
created automaticaly by Windows 95/98). I believe that it was never
tested
with bigger configs, either because the files statements was already
present and was then changed without moving, or because it just didn't
happen!

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

Since it is happening, (4 or 5 times in different machines), can you
suggest
anything?

Alain