Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!octopus!stever From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: How to comment out lines in config.sys ? Message-ID: <1990Mar8.231513.24361@Octopus.COM> Date: 8 Mar 90 23:15:13 GMT References: <5793@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Reply-To: stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick ) Distribution: usa Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA Lines: 12 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 ? > > Robert Heath There is no way to cleanly do this as far as I know, but you can place colons (:) infront of unwanted commands in config.sys if you don't mind the "Unrecognized command in CONFIG.SYS" messages.... Hope this helps.... Steve