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From: MATHRICH@UMCVMB (Rich Winkel    UMC Math Department)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: re: possible virus (pc)
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Date: 8 Jun 89 21:09:40 GMT
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>        Another wierdness (or maybe not).  If you are (BY THE WAY, WE
>ARE TALKING ABOUT IBM CLONES) 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limits from the dos disk that originally made the bootable disk?  It
>must, obviously.  Where does it keep this stuff?

No, it just uses default values hardcoded in dos.  The default for buffers
is 2 for a PC, 3 for an AT. The default for files is 8.

Rich