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CONFIG.SYS

A DOS and OS/2 configuration file. It resided in the root directory and was used to load drivers and change settings at startup. Install programs often modified CONFIG.SYS in order to customize the computer for their particular use. Windows 95/98 executed the lines in CONFIG.SYS if it contained drivers that it found no counterpart for when it was installed. See DOS CONFIG.SYS.

(operating system)

CONFIG.SYS - A text file containing special system configuration commands. It is found in the root directory on an MS-DOS computer, typically on drive C (the hard disk). It is read by MS-DOS at boot time, after the setup has been read from CMOS RAM and before running AUTOEXEC.BAT. It can be modified by the user.

Some example commands which CONFIG.SYS might contain are:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off

Load the extended memory manager.

DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM

Load the expanded memory manager.

BUFFERS=10,0

Specify memory for disk buffers.

FILES=70

Set the number of files that can be open at once.

DOS=UMB

DOS is located in UppeMemoryBlock.

LASTDRIVE=Z

Disk drives are A: to Z:.

FCBS=16,0

Set the number of file control blocks.

DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE

Report the DOS version to older programs.

DOS=HIGH

DOS should maintain a link to UMB.

COUNTRY=358,437 C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS

Set the country code for some programs.

STACKS=9,256

Set dynamic stacks for hardware control.

SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:1024 /p

Set the location of the command interpreter.

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If the system needs to be restored from CD, the real-mode device drivers for both the card and the CD-ROM will need to reside on the emergency disk and be mentioned properly in the CONFIG.

BACKUP METHODS EASE PAIN OF WINDOWS DILEMMAS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

If the memory is supplied on a special memory board, the board also needs to be configured to match the EMS specification before it can be used as expanded memory and a specific driver program must be added to your CONFIG.

Thanks for the memory by Sottile, William / Medical Laboratory Observer

Snooper also offers the following features: reporting of over 100 system info items including detection of IRQs to assist the user in resolving resource conflicts, full-screen netware information, complete disk and port information, and recognition of 1,100 MicroChannel cards; built-in editors for CONFIG.

Vias & Associates Announces Version 3.42 of Snooper System ... by Business Wire

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Conferences of Nonaligned Countries

Conferences of Socialists of the Entente Countries

Conferences of the Communist and Workers Parties

Confession of Augsburg

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