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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE?
Message-ID: <4991@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 90 18:01:41 GMT
References: <17628@shlump.nac.dec.com>
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Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article ... gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys N1BRM) writes:
>
>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
>
>	SHARE is NOT!!! loaded automatically. YOU must put it in your
>CONFIG.SYS as a line  INSTALL=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE...


Hmm.. With my plain vanilla MS-DOS 4.01, the docment clearly states that
DOS attempts to load SHARE automatically if I have any DOS partitions > 32MB,
and in fact, that is exactly what I have observed in practice.  One can use
Quarterdeck MFT to verify this.

However, DOS tries to load SHARE.EXE from the same directory as used
on the SHELL= line in config.sys, or from the root directory of the boot
drive/partition if there is no SHELL= line.

If one is using 4dos instead of command.com, or any other 2nd party shell
program, odds are pretty good that DOS will be unable to find/load SHARE.
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