Editing CONFIG.SYS (section)

== References ==
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<ref name="Paul_1997_NWDOSTIP">{{cite book |title=NWDOS-TIPs &mdash; Tips & Tricks rund um Novell DOS 7, mit Blick auf undokumentierte Details, Bugs und Workarounds |language=de |trans-title=Tips & tricks for Novell DOS 7, with a focus on undocumented details, bugs and workarounds |series=MPDOSTIP |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=1997-07-30 |edition=3 |url=http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/nwdostip.htm |access-date=2012-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105172944/http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/nwdostip.htm |archive-date=5 November 2016 }} (NB. NWDOSTIP.TXT is a comprehensive work on [[Novell DOS 7]] and [[OpenDOS 7.01]], including the description of many undocumented features and internals. It is part of the author's yet larger MPDOSTIP.ZIP collection maintained up to 2001 and distributed on many sites at the time. The provided link points to a HTML-converted older version of the NWDOSTIP.TXT file.)</ref>
<ref name="Caldera_1998_USER">{{cite book |publisher=[[Caldera, Inc.]] |date=1998 |orig-year=1993, 1997 |title=Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 User Guide |url=http://www.drdos.net/documentation/usergeng/uglontoc.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104235434/http://www.drdos.net/documentation/usergeng/uglontoc.htm |archive-date=2016-11-04}}</ref>
<ref name="Paul_1997_OD-A3">{{cite web |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |title=Caldera OpenDOS 7.01/7.02 Update Alpha 3 IBMBIO.COM README.TXT |url=http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/download/ibmbioa3.zip |date=1997-10-02 |access-date=2009-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031004074600/http://www-student.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~frinke/ibmbioa3.zip |archive-date=2003-10-04}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20181225154705/http://mirror.macintosharchive.org/max1zzz.co.uk/+Windows%20&%20DOS/DOS/System/Novell/Support/Bins/Op702src.zip<!-- Op702src.zip is an unofficial renamed distribution of the ibmbioa3.zip file -->]</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2001_NWDOSTIP">{{cite book |title=NWDOS-TIPs &mdash; Tips & Tricks rund um Novell DOS 7, mit Blick auf undokumentierte Details, Bugs und Workarounds |language=de |trans-title=Tips & tricks for Novell DOS 7, with a focus on undocumented details, bugs and workarounds |series=MPDOSTIP |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=2001-04-09 |edition=3}}</ref>
<ref name="Novell_1993_LOADER">{{cite web |title=Booting Multiple Operating Systems with the DR Multiuser DOS LOADER Utility |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322220335/http://developer.novell.com/support/bullets/apr93.htm |archive-date=2012-03-22 |url=http://developer.novell.com/support/bullets/apr93.htm#articles |series=Volume 5, Number 4 |author-first=Mad |author-last=Poarch<!-- Director, Developer Support/Service --> |publisher=[[Novell]] |date=April 1993 |access-date=2013-06-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="4DOS_8.00_HELP">{{cite book |title=4DOS 8.00 online help |title-link=4DOS 8.00 |author-first1=Hardin |author-last1=Brothers |author-first2=Tom |author-last2=Rawson |author-link2=Tom Rawson |author-first3=Rex C. |author-last3=Conn |author-link3=Rex C. Conn |author-first4=Matthias R. |author-last4=Paul |author-first5=Charles E. |author-last5=Dye |author-first6=Luchezar I. |author-last6=Georgiev |date=2002-02-27}}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_2000_Windows-ME">{{cite web |title=Understanding the Settings in the Windows Millennium Edition CONFIG.SYS File |date=2007-01-29 |orig-year=2000 |version=Revision 1.2 |id=KB274646. Q274646 |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |access-date=2006-10-16 |url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q274646/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723153210/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q274646 |archive-date=2012-07-23}}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_1995_CONFIG">{{cite web |title=Windows 95 CD-ROM CONFIG.TXT File - Microsoft Windows 95 README for MS-DOS Config.sys Commands |id=KB135481. Q135481 |version=Revision: 1.1 |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |date=2006-11-15 |orig-year=August 1995 |url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135481/EN-US |access-date=2011-12-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128224809/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135481/EN-US |archive-date=2013-01-28 |quote=[…] For each hard disk, specifies whether to record the date that files are last accessed. Last access dates are turned off for all drives when your computer is started in safe mode, and are not maintained for floppy disks by default. Syntax: <code>[[ACCDATE (CONFIG.SYS directive)|ACCDATE]]=drive1+{{!}}- [drive2+{{!}}-]…</code> […]}}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_1998_CONFIG">{{cite web |title=The Windows 98 Config.txt File - Microsoft Windows 98 README for MS-DOS Config.sys Commands |publisher=[[Microsoft Corporation]] |id=ID 232557 |date=2017-01-07 |orig-year=April 1998 |edition=1 |url=http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=232557 |access-date=2017-09-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103011840/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/232557/the-windows-98-config-txt-file |archive-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>
<ref name="Childs_1995_OS2">{{cite web |url=http://www.markcrocker.com/rexxtipsntricks/rxtt28.2.0795.html |title=CONFIG.SYS statements used by OS/2 |work=REXX Tips & Tricks, Version 2.80 |author-first=Peter |author-last=Childs |version=0.9b |date=1995 |access-date=2009-01-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220031733/http://www.markcrocker.com/rexxtipsntricks/rxtt28.2.0795.html |archive-date=20 February 2012 }}</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2017_DR">{{cite web |title=The continuing saga of Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode on OmniBook 300 |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |orig-year=2017-08-07 |date=2017-08-14 |work=MoHPC - the Museum of HP Calculators |url=http://hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-8774-post-77196.html#pid77196 |access-date=2018-05-01 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501185933/http://hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-8774-post-77196.html |archive-date=2018-05-01 |quote=[…] SYS […] /A Additionally copy [D]CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file(s). […] /B or /L Do not modify the Boot Sector in destination (with LOADER). […] /DR[:ext] Use other file extension for system files (BIN) (with LOADER). […]}}</ref>
<ref name="CCI_1997_HELP">{{cite book |title=CCI Multiuser DOS 7.22 GOLD Online Documentation |id=HELP.HLP |date=1997-02-10 |publisher=[[Concurrent Controls, Inc.]] (CCI)}}</ref>
<ref name="CCI_1997_PRINTDOC">{{cite book |title=CCI Multiuser DOS 7.22 GOLD Installation Guide |id=PRINTDOC.HLP |date=1997-02-10 |publisher=[[Concurrent Controls, Inc.]] (CCI)}}</ref>
<ref name="Datalight_2005_ROM-DOS">{{cite web |title=Datalight ROM-DOS User's Guide |date=April 2005 |orig-year=1999 |id=3010-0200-0716 |author1=Datalight, Inc. |author-link1=Datalight, Inc. |author2=GPvNO |publisher=[[Datalight, Inc.]] |url=https://www.datalight.com/assets/files/ROM-DOS_Users_Guide.pdf |access-date=2018-09-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421143059/https://www.datalight.com/assets/files/ROM-DOS_Users_Guide.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-21}}</ref>
<ref name="DCP_2016">{{cite web |title=Betriebssystem DCP |author-first1=Rüdiger |author-last1=Kurth |author-first2=Martin |author-last2=Groß |author-first3=Henry |author-last3=Hunger |date=2016-11-29 |orig-year=2007 |language=de |website=www.robotrontechnik.de |url=http://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/software/dcp.htm |access-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403061152/http://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/software/dcp.htm |archive-date=2019-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2004_YESCHAR">{{cite web |title=Re: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03 |date=2004-06-17 |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |work=opendos@delorie.com; [[FidoNet]] conference: ALT_DOS |number=1 |url=https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/alt_dos/7e55a758c10339d0.html |access-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190428181923/https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/alt_dos/7e55a758c10339d0.html |archive-date=28 April 2019 }} [https://archive.today/20190501023752/http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/2004/06/17/07:47:11.1][https://archive.today/20190428182007/http://www.fybertech.com/misc/qwkview/qwkview.pl?conf=3010]</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2004_CHAIN">{{cite web |title=Re: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03 |date=2004-06-17 |number=2 |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |work=opendos@delorie.com; [[FidoNet]] conference: ALT_DOS |url=https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/alt_dos/f2b6d63fc10339d0.html |access-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190428181843/https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/alt_dos/f2b6d63fc10339d0.html |archive-date=28 April 2019 }} [https://archive.today/20190501023518/http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/2004/06/17/07:47:11][https://archive.today/20190428182007/http://www.fybertech.com/misc/qwkview/qwkview.pl?conf=3010]</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2004_COMMAND">{{cite web |title=Re: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03 |date=2004-06-17 |number=3 |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |work=opendos@delorie.com; [[FidoNet]] conference: ALT_DOS |url=https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/alt_dos/e812a919c10339d0.html |access-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190428181749/https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/alt_dos/e812a919c10339d0.html |archive-date=2019-04-28 |quote=[…] all MS-DOS versions prior to Windows 95 […] used a COM style COMMAND.COM file which has a special signature at the start of the file […] queried by the MS-DOS BIOS before it loads the shell, but not by the DR-DOS BIOS […] COMMAND.COM would […] check that it is running on the "correct" DOS version, so if you would load their COMMAND.COM under DR-DOS, you would receive a "Bad version" error message and their COMMAND.COM would exit, so DR-DOS would […] display an error message "Bad or missing command interpreter" (if DR-DOS was trying to load the SHELL= command processor after having finished CONFIG.SYS processing). In this case, you could enter the path to a valid DR-DOS COMMAND.COM (C:\DRDOS\COMMAND.COM) and everything was fine. Now, things have changed since MS-DOS 7.0 […] COMMAND.COM has internally become an EXE style file, so there is no magic […] signature […] to check […] thus no way for DR-DOS to rule out an incompatible COMMAND.COM. Further, their COMMAND.COM no longer does any version checks, but […] does not work under DR-DOS […] just crashes […] the PC DOS COMMAND.COM works fine under DR-DOS […]}} [https://archive.today/20190501023329/http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/2004/06/17/06:23:16][https://archive.today/20190428182007/http://www.fybertech.com/misc/qwkview/qwkview.pl?conf=3010]</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2000_CONFIG">{{cite web |title=Optimizing CONFIG.SYS… |date=2000-11-22 |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |work=opendos@delorie.com |url=http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/2000/11/22/11:09:09 |access-date=2019-05-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190506023131/http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/2000/11/22/11:09:09 |archive-date=2019-05-06}}</ref>
<ref name="RxDOS724">{{cite web |author=ecm |title=RxDOS 7.24 release |date=2018-10-08 |website=bttr-software.de |series=DOS ain't dead |url=http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=15627 |access-date=2020-01-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215010804/http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=15627 |archive-date=2018-12-15}}</ref>
<ref name="Paul_2002_CTMOUSE">{{cite web |title=Re: [fd-dev] ANNOUNCE: CuteMouse 2.0 alpha 1 |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |work=freedos-dev |date=2002-04-06 |url=https://marc.info/?l=freedos-dev&m=101807226917577 |access-date=2020-02-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207130948/https://marc.info/?l=freedos-dev&m=101807226917577&w=2 |archive-date=2020-02-07 |quote=[…] [[DR-DOS 7.02]]+ has a [D]CONFIG.SYS directive to override the [[serial port]]s detected during System BIOS [[Power On Self Test|POST]], so tools like [[DEBUG (DOS command)|DEBUG]] […] are no longer required to update or change the port settings in segment 40h. […] insert a line to [D]CONFIG.SYS to make the port available to the [[System BIOS]], DOS, and most drivers and applications: […] COM4=260,1 ; set [[I/O address]] for [[COM4]] to 260h, timeout 1 […] Since old machines and DOS versions did not know about [[COM3]] and COM4 at all, good software will try to use the data stored in segment 0040h […] Optionally hide the chosen mouse COM port from the system configuration to avoid any clobbering by old [[BASIC]] programs. […]}}</ref>
<ref name="Ernst_1987_DRIVER">{{cite magazine |title=Damit die Scheibe spurt - 720 KB-Disketten mit MF-Drives im AT; Atari ST-Disketten unter DOS ab Version 3.2 in PCs, ATs oder Modell 30 |language=de |series=Programm |author-first1=Martin |author-last1=Ernst |author-first2=Detlef |author-last2=Grell |editor-first=Detlef |editor-last=Grell |date=November 1987 |magazine=[[c't - magazin für computertechnik]] |publisher=[[Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH & Co. KG]] |volume=1987 |issue=11 |issn=0724-8679 |pages=216-218, 220, 222, 224, 226, 228 [226<!-- relevant page -->]}}</ref>
<ref name="ecom_2001">{{cite web |url=http://www.ecomstation.com/docs/release1.0/ecs-ga-pdf-a5.pdf |date=2001 |access-date=2020-10-08 |website=ecomstation.com |title=eComStation 1.0 Manual}}</ref>
<ref name="ArcaOS_2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/updating-from-a-prior-release/troubleshooting-the-arcaos-update-procedure/ |title=Troubleshooting the ArcaOS update procedure |access-date=2020-10-08 |website=arcanoae.com}}</ref>
<ref name="Schneider_1994">{{cite journal |title=Das Ende von DOS ist nur noch eine Frage der Zeit |language=de |trans-title=The end of DOS is only a question of time |author-first=Stefanie |author-last=Schneider |journal=[[Computerwoche]] |publisher=[[IDG Business Media GmbH]] |location=Munich, Germany |date=1994-06-17 |url=https://www.computerwoche.de/a/das-ende-von-dos-ist-nur-noch-eine-frage-der-zeit,1121952 |access-date=2022-01-02 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102151737/https://www.computerwoche.de/a/das-ende-von-dos-ist-nur-noch-eine-frage-der-zeit,1121952 |archive-date=2022-01-02 |quote=[…] So handelt es sich bei dem fuer Ende 1994, Anfang 1995 erwarteten [[MS-DOS 7.0]] offenkundig um eine der grafischen Benutzeroberflaeche entledigte Version von [[Windows 4.0]], die auch den Codenamen "[[Microsoft Chicago|Chicago]]" traegt. Dieses neue DOS soll der CW-Schwesterpublikation "PC-Welt" zufolge durch die neuen Parameter "standard" und "enhanced" in der Systemdatei Io.sys die leidigen Speicherbarrieren ueberwinden. […]}} (NB. The undocumented settings <code>STANDARD</code> and <code>ENHANCED</code> are optional parameters of the CONFIG.SYS directive <kbd>[[DOS (CONFIG.SYS directive)|DOS]]</kbd>.)</ref>
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