Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3
Message-ID: <3952@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 15:12:57 GMT
References: <38144@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <12725@hydra.gatech.EDU> <56756@microsoft.UUCP>
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In article <56756@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>If you want a disk partition >32MB, you must load SHARE.EXE each time you
>boot up or else risk losing data.  (The people I have asked about
>NOSHARE.EXE, which is available on USENET, have all told me they think it
>is a bad idea.  Use the real thing, SHARE.EXE.)

Does anyone know exactly why SHARE.EXE is required for large partitions?
And does it matter whether I load it from AUTOEXEC.BAT rather than CONFIG.SYS??
(I want to LOADHI it out of the way with QEMM).
>
>The Story on DOS 5.00:
>... It can load some of itself into the HMA (High
>Memory Area) of extended memory if you have a 286 or above (and if you
>
>... but would allow you to switch from program to program without
>exiting and restarting the programs.  Presumably this feature would require
>expanded or extended memory.

This sounds nice at first, but MOST IMPORTANTLY:

	Do these functions work under QEMM 5.0  ??

If not, I don't want it.
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