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

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"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
news:JP-dnUvMTM5KPlDNnZ2dnVY3goydnZ2d@giganews.com...
> "Sjouke Burry"  wrote in message
> news:XnsA12B61C144Fsjoukeburrysoesterbe@213.75.12.10...
> > "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> wrote:
...

> > > [snip]
> > [snip]
>
> If he's seeing what he thinks he's seeing (I don't have FreeDOS
> on any of my machines to try), then it's a bug.  Or, at least,
> an "incompatibility."  Their parser appears to be testing
> incorrectly for the terminator.
>

That's what I took the issue to be.  I'm assuming they're testing
only for a space.  I'd think they'd also test for EOL (CR LF), but
I didn't see that with my testing.  Auric__ said he saw that with
his testing using VMWare.


RP

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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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