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Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS

From	JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh>
Newsgroups	comp.os.msdos.programmer, comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject	Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS
Date	2012-12-16 21:17 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<XnsA12C2C7212016jj@0.0.0.15> (permalink)
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"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> wrote:
> I pasted this DEVICE= line from my MS-DOS CONFIG.SYS into
> FreeDOS' CONFIG.SYS (v1.1):
> 
>   DEVICE=HIMEMX.EXE/MAX=2097152/NUMHANDLES=128/METHOD:PORT92
> 
> It flagged the '=' sign with an error via a caret '^' on the next
> line.  What does that mean exactly?  What could be wrong with the
> '=' sign?  Nothing.  It happens there is no correlation between
> the indicated error and the problem ...  There is a bug in
> FreeDOS.
> 
> So, next, I reduced the FreeDOS DEVICE= line to:
> 
>   DEVICE=HIMEMX.EXE
> 
> It still flagged the '=' sign as an error.
> 
> After spending a half-hour trying every combination of upper- and
> lower-case "DEVICE=", "HIMEMX.EXE", and the path, I found that
> FreeDOS needs a space between HIMEMX.EXE and it's parameters.
> 
> Unfortunately, the need for a space is required whether the
> DEVICE= line has parameters or not ...  I.e., the line above
> without parameters needs a space at the end!!!  Most DOS editors
> trim the final spaces from the end-of-line.  I'd think that anyone
> familiar with DOS would know that or should.

I've encountered this confusing problem before (I'm still using kernel 
build 2036). It seems that KERNEL.SYS not just poorly parse the line, but 
also incorrectly report the line which causes the error.

> If you're reading and are familiar with someone on the FreeDOS
> team, could you pass along this error report?
> 
> 
> Rod Pemberton

One should wake them up first, cause they seem to be dormant. Last 2041 
build was on 2012-02-07. If you have older build (see your KERNEL's 
HISTORY.TXT), try the latest build (the ke2041_386f32.zip file) from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2041/
http://tinyurl.com/bt5bwcv

or...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2041/
http://tinyurl.com/ce2t5u7

Thread

FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-15 23:26 -0500
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2012-12-16 08:36 +0000
    Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> - 2012-12-16 05:35 -0500
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2012-12-16 17:03 +0000
        Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-12-16 20:50 +0000
        Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> - 2012-12-16 20:42 -0500
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-16 16:33 -0500
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2012-12-16 19:04 +0100
    Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-16 16:32 -0500
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2012-12-17 00:00 +0100
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-12-18 15:30 +0000
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-12-16 20:50 +0000
    Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-16 16:33 -0500
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2012-12-16 21:17 +0000
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-12-18 15:35 +0000

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