Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!uunet!sdrc!thor!scjones From: scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3 Message-ID: <135@thor.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 90 19:26:23 GMT References: <38144@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <12725@hydra.gatech.EDU> <15834@oolong.la.locus.com> Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati Lines: 32 In article <15834@oolong.la.locus.com>, scotte@locus.com (Scott Eberline) writes: > In article <56756@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes: > >IBM ships DOS 4.01 under the name of PC-DOS 4.0; they did *not* change the > >name when they shipped the bug fix. > > I've got a Phoenix version labelled MSDOS 4.01, but the VER command prints > out "4.00". Is this expected? I don't think I'd describe it as "expected", but that is indeed how it works. The only reliable way of determining what version of DOS you have is by checking the dates on all the files -- neither the external nor internal version numbers are necessarily changed when fixes are made. For 4.01 they incremented the external version number but did not update the internal one. > >If you want a disk partition >32MB, you must load SHARE.EXE each time you > >boot up or else risk losing data. ... > > Does this get loaded automatically somehow? If I boot without any config.sys > or autoexec.bat, DOS spits out a message recommending SHARE for large parti- > tions. But with my normal startup files that do not include SHARE, the MEM > command indicates that SHARE is resident. What gives? If SHARE.EXE is in the root directory, DOS will load it automatically. If not, and you don't load it explicitly, it will print out an error message, but will continue to boot. ---- Larry Jones UUCP: uunet!sdrc!thor!scjones SDRC scjones@thor.UUCP 2000 Eastman Dr. BIX: ltl Milford, OH 45150-2789 AT&T: (513) 576-2070 See if we can sell Mom and Dad into slavery for a star cruiser. -- Calvin