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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How to comment out lines in config.sys ?
Message-ID: <90071.030521CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 08:05:21 GMT
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In article <89@cvbnetPrime.COM>, jsulliva@cvbnet.UUCP (Jeff Sullivan, x4096 MS
4-2) says:
>
>  In MS-DOS 4.01, you are able to use "REM", just like
>  in batch files. This is a very useful feature, but I
>  am not sure if it's applicable to older versions of
>  DOS. Can anyone confirm this for earlier versions?

No.  It tries to execute the "REM" as a command and issues an error message.