Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!tsun19!kd From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Dryllerakis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE? Message-ID: <2620@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 5 Dec 90 11:28:12 GMT References: <28733@shamash.cdc.com> <26120002@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Reply-To: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Dryllerakis) Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK Lines: 23 In article <26120002@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>, charlie@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Charlie Duke) writes: |> > 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. |> |> Well, but, the manual for 4.01 says that SHARE is loaded by simply issuing |> the command SHARE, without any mention of installing it via CONFIG.SYS. |> Can anyone explain? |> |> Charlie Duke It is interesting that DOS 4.01 loads SHARE automatically in my 386 PC with a 40 MB hard disk. I need NOT specify either a SHARE command under tha command shell OR load it from within the CONFIG.SYS. It seems to be able to detect the presence of large media and install SHARE automatically. K J Dryllerakis Imperial College Computing Department