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From: fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How to comment out lines in config.sys ?
Message-ID: <8479@cg-atla.agfa.com>
Date: 17 Mar 90 02:40:53 GMT
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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>In article <5793@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath) writes:
>>How do you comment out lines in config.sys without getting warning messages
>>from DOS as it attempts to read them ?

As others have said there is not comment implemented for config.sys files
in version of DOS older than 4.01. However, just putting a REM at the
beginning of the line works just fine, if you can tolerate the 
resulting error message. DOS just skips the "invalid" command and
proceeds to the next one.

I have used this method for years to have commands in my config.sys that
I sometimes want to use, so that I don't hve to REMEMBER them when those
rare occasions arise.

Fred