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From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re:       Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:13:37 -0200
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Hi Matthias,

I have checked that the program puts the cr/lf ok, but I never
managed to get a file with the problem (it had already been corrected
every time).

It allways happend in very simple Config.sys files, without menu
groups.

I will change the following and release it to see if it works:
- look for himem and emm386 and place it after them
- put a space before the files=100 command
- put at least a blank line at the begining and at the end of the file

thanks to all the feedback (from you and Arkady)

Alain

>> 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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