Re: Beta vs. Stable

"Arkady V.Belousov" <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Nov 2002 04:03:01 +0300 (MSK)

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Hi!

9-Ноя-2002 03:49 [email protected] (Arkady V.Belousov) wrote to [email protected]:

BO>> * kernel - is missing in config.sys:
BO>> (see http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/spec/config.html)
BO>> - buffers=nn[,n] - we have no secondary buffers
AVB>      This is _not_ required. You may simply ignore second argument similar
AVB> as MS-DOS ignores second argument of FCBS statement or assumes default
AVB> values for BUFFERS if wrong values given.

     BTW, latest MS HELP even not mentions about second FCBS argument, but
config.sys allows to point second argument (which simply ignored). AFAIR,
this second argument was present in MS-DOS 3.x-4.x and dummied in MS-DOS
5.x-6.x.

BO>> - fcbs - this one is stupid in the FreeDOS context; we simply don't need
BO>> system FCBs for the FCB functions. It is parsed but ignored.
AVB>      So what the problem with this?