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From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How to comment out lines in config.sys ?
Message-ID: <10584@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 17:41:37 GMT
References: <5793@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
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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

try prepending the line with SHELL=
dont forget to include a _real_ SHELL= line at the end of the file.
for example...

	SHELL=DEVICE=DONTWANT.SYS
	SHELL=this is a comment.
	DEVICE=ANSI.SYS
	SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /R
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