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Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:57:30 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.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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In <20020313060007.HWYU5873.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@MYPC>, on 03/12/02
at 10:09 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>So we can forget Ray Davison's recommendations?

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

Let's just say the solutions are usually elsewhere.

Also, based on Peter's analysis and some documentation I finally found,
I've updated this to:

REM --> Load order BASEDEV (SYS BID VSD TSD ADD I13 FLT DMD) IFS/DEVICE
REM --> CALL waits for completion, RUN does not ===

IFS's and DEVICE's are part of the same set and load in the order they
appear.

What this means is that unlike BASEDEV's the ordering of DEVICE's often
does matter. A typical case is DOS VDM drivers:

REM === DOS VDM Settings ===
DEVICE=F:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS 0
REM --> VXMS must follow VEMM
DEVICE=F:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
REM --> VDPMI must follow VXMS
DEVICE=F:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=F:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=F:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
DEVICE=F:\OS2\MDOS\VW32S.SYS

These notes exist because one of the early config.sys editors reorded
these statements and allowed me to learn this.

Steven

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