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Article #5919Re: Unrecognized command in CONFIG.SYS
From: Carl Schelin
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 12:16
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 12:16
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In article <1991Apr21.233301.18553@src.honeywell.com>, gcary@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Greg Cary) says: > >Is there a way to put remarks in a config.sys file? >I know that in a batch file you can either use "rem" or use the >label identifier ":" as an alternative to "rem". > .. One thing I noticed was that placing a ':' before a device=... line also causes the next line to be ignored. This happened when I was installing FTP on a system and placed a ':' rather than the usual "rem " or '*'. I think it was using MS-Dos 3.3 but I'm not sure. Carl Schelin tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!news From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Unrecognized command in CONFIG.SYS Message-ID: <1991Apr23.121656.13623@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 12:16:56 GMT References: <1991Apr21.233301.18553@src.honeywell.com> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab Lines: 15