Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!bellcore!decvax.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!regent.enet.dec.com!gettys From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys N1BRM) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE? Message-ID: <17628@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 27 Nov 90 13:55:37 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 18 In article <7266.274b879a@eva.slu.se>, ernst_witter@eva.slu.se writes... >Can somebody also tell me that if SHARE is automatically loaded if you >have a disk with a single partition > 32Mb, that if I specify to load SHARE >in my autoexec.bat I do no get a message saying that it is already loaded >(which presumably it should have been), but if I load it twice in the >autoexec.bat or from the command line I do the second time get a message that >SHARE is already loaded. One more mistery. > >Ernst Witter SHARE is NOT!!! loaded automatically. YOU must put it in your CONFIG.SYS as a line INSTALL=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE where C:\DOS\ is the location of the SHARE.EXE file. Then it will be loaded "automatically" at boot time. /s/ Bob Gettys