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From: scotte@locus.com (Scott Eberline)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3
Message-ID: <15958@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 22:02:39 GMT
References: <12725@hydra.gatech.EDU> <15834@oolong.la.locus.com> <135@thor.UUCP>
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In article <135@thor.UUCP> scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>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.

In that case, I suspect it checks the directory pointed to by SHELL or
COMSPEC also.  I keep both COMMAND.COM and SHARE.EXE in C:/DOS.

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Scott D. Eberline		scotte@locus.com  or  uunet!lcc!scotte