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Date:	Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:14:29 PST7
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Legan vs. Levine: The IFS= Steel Cage Match !!

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I've dragged out the B&W little monitor and rerun
Umpire Duck's experiment locally.
My results seem to confirm his,
especially that the IFS and DEVICE statements
seem to run in strict order encountered in the
CONFIG.SYS file as a single group, as far as I can tell.

I don't know of any ECHO.SYS driver, but the
EXT2-OS2.IFS prints out some messages when things get to
it, which doesn't seem to indicate any stacking/processing
steps.

One statement that is obviously being processed in different
order from what Azzerito and Green state is the
'PAUSEONERROR=YES|NO' "Performance" statement, which goes into effect
some time before the DEVICE/IFS scan.
I tried both values. No effect on BASEDEV's.
This one statement might be an exception, but it does
seem to back up Levine's idea that the "Performances"'s might be processed
before the DEVICE/IFS stuff.

Another statement obviously *processed* in another order than
than what A&G give, at least for being read, is PROTSHELL=.
It might be read with PAUSEONERROR, when A&Z state (Performance group),
or after the CALL/RUN stuff, but it does not effect things
till good and ready, at the end of bootup.

I probably should rerun the experiment, but seem to recall the

RUN=...SUBSTHST.EXE

kicks out a message (and ad actually :-) ) on running also,
which is maybe why I presumed the RUN='s
went sometime before CALL='s.
It has never shown up during or after CALL='s.

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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