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- From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
- Subject: Re: Config says there's a floppy drive
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.135756.10642@uk03.bull.co.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:57:56 GMT
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- zzaascd@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
- >I would be very surprised if there were any harmful effects of this bug.
- >I have never noticed *any* high-level effect arising from the configuration
- >set with CONFIG. I have used systems with this information set completely
- >haywire, but nothing seemed to care. *Does* anything actually use this
- >information?
- According to my Apollo support person, almost all of config's
- information is ignored. The exception is the primary network (802.3 or
- Token Ring). If this is set wrongly you can have big problems until
- you work out the problem!
-
- Eoin.
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