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From: joes@scarecrow.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Joe Sieczkowski)
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Subject: RE: Possible virus? (PC)
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Date: 9 Jun 89 01:40:26 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limits from the dos disk that originally made the bootable disk?

If there is no config.sys file on a bootable disk, DOS just uses
the default buffer and file sizes which are quite small.  It does
not keep them from the original DOS disk that made it bootable.

Dbase requires a minimium file and buffer size in order for it to run
properly.  Every bootable Dbase disk should have a config.sys file on
it to meet these requirements. This might have been the cause of your
problem.

Joe