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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: config.sys comment lines
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Date: 4 Dec 90 17:19:27 GMT
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poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:

>In article <69400004@sunb1> jaswal@sunb1.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>'REM comment ' works in Dos 4 and I believe only in Dos 4.
>>

>You CAN use this in DOS 3.3, if you don't mind getting a "Unrecognized command
>in config.sys" message.

Of course you can (Most people just use a "*"), but that just begs the question.

I think the SHELL= suggestion is the best...