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Date:	Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:11:00 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Legan vs. Levine: The IFS= Steel Cage Match !!

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leganii@surfree.com wrote:
>
> 2) DEVICE=
> 3) Various 'Performance Statements'
> (Which they specificly state includes IFS=)

Steven Levine wrote:
>
> REM --> Load order ... IFS DEVICE

Umpire Duck gives the introductions:

"In this corner, Dallas Muscleman Legan representing the DEVICE IFS
sequence"

"And in this corner, Steven The Barber Levine representing the IFS
DEVICE sequence"

There's the Bell! And the winner is . . .

Umpire Duck !

who put the following false driver lines into his CONFIG.SYS and
rebooted to find out what sequence the error messages would appear in:

BASEDEV=TESTBAS1.ADD
DEVICE=TESTDEV1.SYS
IFS=TESTIFS1.IFS
BASEDEV=TESTBAS2.ADD
DEVICE=TESTDEV2.SYS
IFS=TESTIFS2.IFS

BASEDEV= are loaded first (everybody agreed on that). DEVICE= and IFS=
error messages were intertwined; they are processed on the same "scan".

Note: It makes sense to expect that the drivers are loaded as they are
encountered, but it is *possible* that the CONFIG.SYS process is
"stacking" the driver names somewhere and loads all of them *after*
reading the entire CONFIG.SYS. To test for that possibility, I need
some kind of ECHO.SYS device driver which simply displays whatever
parameters are on its line. That way, I will have a valid device driver
which can identify itself. Does anybody know of such a driver?

- Umpire Duck and his waterboy Pete

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