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From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David M. Chess)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: re: Possible virus? (PC)
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Date: 7 Jun 89 21:52:54 GMT
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> If you are...  booting up from a bootable diskette (not a full DOS
> disk) with no config.sys file, does it get the files and buffers
> limits from the dos disk that originally made the bootable disk?

No, when you boot from any disk without a CONFIG.SYS on it, DOS just
takes the defaults for files and buffers.  The defaults have varied
with DOS version, I think.  In 3.3, I believe the defaults were
FILES=8 and BUFFERS=2, 3, 5, 10 or 15 (depending on diskette drives
installed and memory size).  See the DOS manual for details.

DC