Thank you, appreciate the explanation.

Franklin

--- Steven Levine  wrote:
> In
>
,
> on 01/05/04 
>    at 10:44 PM, Franklin 
> said:
> 
> >Am I missing something here? I thought I read
> >somewhere that OS/2 loads all IFS drivers in 
> >config.sys first, then basedevices, then  devices.
> 
> Memory fault. :-)  For your config.sys:
> 
> REM --> Load order BASEDEV (SYS BID VSD TSD ADD I13
> FLT DMD) IFS/DEVICE
> REM --> CALL waits for completion, RUN does not ===
> 
> BASEDEVS are first sorted by extension and loaded in
> the order shown. 
> IFSs and DEVICEs load in the order of appearance.
> 
> The major reason the IFSs need to be near the start
> of config.sys is that
> some tools, one being the locked file system driver,
> will not search the
> entire config.sys to find the IFS.  This makes for
> interesting install
> failures.
> 
> There are some other practical reasons for keeping
> IFSs near the start of
> config.sys, but the kernel loader really does not
> care where the IFS
> statements appear.  Of course, you do need load the
> IFS before you can
> access partitions that require the IFS, but that
> should be obvious.


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