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From: etxsral@california.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson)
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Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier)
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.160425.12209@ericsson.se>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:04:25 GMT
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In article <5489@husc6.harvard.edu> albert@endor.UUCP (David Albert) writes:
>Why is it the case that "SHARE must be loaded for large media" in
>MS-DOS 4.01?  I ran my computer with a full 40Meg hard disk for a
>month without SHARE loaded, with no problems.  Might something bad
>have happened if I continued?

My version of MS-DOS 4.01 loads SHARE automatically if share can be found
on root or in the dos-directory.
You should be able to check this with the MEM-program.
Give command MEM/PROGRAM or MEM/DEBUG to list resident-programs.

/Lars Nilsson

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