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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE?
Message-ID: <59815@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:46:19 GMT
References: <28733@shamash.cdc.com> <26120002@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> <2620@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Organization: Microsoft International Products Group
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In article <2620@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Dryllerakis) writes:
>	It is interesting that DOS 4.01 loads SHARE automatically in my
>386 PC with a 40 MB hard disk.

I believe that if SHARE.COM is in your root directory (C:\) and you have
large media, DOS 4.01 will load SHARE automatically for you.  If you don't
have SHARE.COM in your root, DOS will just complain.

If you have large media and don't load SHARE, you run the risk of having an
ill-behaved application trash your hard disk.
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