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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:58:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michel de Ruiter wrote:

> I have found a very strange problem in DOS. MS-DOS 7.10 without Win98
> GUI. It also happens in a DOS-box under Win98. You can experience it
> as follows:
> 
> %DJDIR%\bin\echo.exe xmsxxxx0mytext

I haven't tested this at all, but let me contribute a first idea what
may the relevance of that strange filename 'xmsxxxx0'. It looks like
one of those pseudo devicenames attributed to every config.sys-loaded
device driver, when looked at in system information tools like 'MSD'.
'XMSXXXX0' is the name of the pseudo-device set up by HIMEM.SYS ...

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.