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From: jimf@idayton.field.intel.com (Jim Fister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE?
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.144927.16649@idayton.field.intel.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 14:49:27 GMT
References: <17628@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Intel Corp./ Dayton Sales Office
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>>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.

>	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.

When you install shell (=[path]command.com), the system checks for the 
presence of share in the same directory.  If it finds it, it loads it. When
you try to install on the command line, you get the message.  That's why the
DOS 4.01 install package uses the command.com in the DOS directroy.

At least, that's what Microsoft finally told me. 

Standard disclaimer.  I'm too independant to speak for my company.

Greetings from the Rocking Metropolis.

JimF