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Date:	Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:10:41 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: IFS= sequence (was: basedev lines not found)

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Get a copy of ConfigTool. It will describe most every line in
config.sys. If you have it sort, it will put all the IFS at the top,
and then tell you to move NETWKSTA.200. It has tools for moving lines,
and items within path statements.

I find sorting it makes it easier to understand and work on. And it
does play when it is resorted. Understand, it always was sorted. It
was done by whatever entities had access to it, using whatever rules or
lack of them they chose.

Other things you might have to move:

Make DANIS506.ADD the first BASEDEV
Put COM.SYS before the network devices

Ray

Peter Skye wrote:
>
>
> > [BASEDEV=] are loaded before the IFS's are running.
>
> In CONFIG.SYS, must IFS= appear before certain other lines?
>
> I notice, for example, that the IFS=...CDFS.IFS line is before
> BASEDEV=IBMATAPI.FLT in my CONFIG.SYS. Is this sequence required?
>
> I'm unclear on when (which scan of CONFIG.SYS) the IFS= lines are
> processed and what other lines are processed on that same scan.
>
> I know that BASEDEV= lines are processed based on the extension of each
> driver (the specific sequence is given in the BASEDEV= online
> documentation), and that BASEDEV= lines are processed before DEVICE=
> lines. But I've never seen any documentation on when IFS= lines are
> processed.
>
> There must be a reason that the Warp developers have us use
> IFS=...HPFS.IFS instead of DEVICE=...HPFS.IFS. Darned if I know what
> that reason is; I'm guessing it has something to do with the load
> sequence.
>

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