Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a329 From: Stephen_Niehaus@mindlink.UUCP (Stephen Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: using share in dos4 Message-ID: <4827@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 17 Feb 91 11:44:07 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 51 > hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl writes: > > Msg-ID: <4870@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> > Posted: 18 Feb 91 10:16:23 GMT > > Person: Hayo Baan > > In tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes: > > ->halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Halpern) writes: > -> > ->>I've recently installed dos4.0 on my pc and everytime I boot I guet this > ->>warning message telling me to install share for large media. I should > also > ->>add that I have a 286pc with 20MB and 40MB hard drives. Why am I getting > ->>this message and what should I do to stop getting it ? > -> > ->Since I've seen several people use 4.0 (or 4.01, which you really should > ->be using instead since it fixes a few bugs in 4.0), and ignoring this > ->pretty important warning (which really should be a fatal error -- why > ->DOS doesn't load SHARE automatically I don't know!), I guess this ought > ->to be posted: > > This is not true : DOS automatically loads in share if it can find it! > DOS searches for share in the root directory, and in the directory > your shell statement refers to. > Because you (the original poster) changed from command.com to 4dos.com, > his shell statement propably changed -> DOS can't find share anymore. > Simply put this line in your CONFIG.SYS file, install=c:\share.exe This will load Share and remove the WARNING message. If you are running QEMM you could also load share this way: install=c:\qemm\loadhi.com /tsr c:\share.exe If you do this SHARE will be installed into high memory on a 386 machine. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Niehaus UUCP: {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a329 Fujikama O.A (WESTERN) a329@mindlink.UUCP =========================================================================== Disclamer: My opinions are mine | Then it's a Romulan cloaking device... because nobody else | No more like a very bad copy of one else will admit they | - Jean-Luc Picard Agree with me. |