From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:26:42 +0100 Subject: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS... X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <8A9F6AA5FF5@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 Alain M. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------