Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!aim1!jlr1801 From: jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu (Jeff Rife) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: using share in dos4 Message-ID: <12330@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 19 Feb 91 00:19:47 GMT References: <3603@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <4870@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: City of College Station, Texas Lines: 43 In article <4870@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) writes: >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. I'm quoting everything because I don't have access to the original message. OK, now IGNORE THE MESSAGE. Straight from Microsoft technical support, as I had a problem with SHARE.EXE conflicting with another program, there are exactly two reasons to run SHARE. 1. An applications program (such as network stuff) explicitly states that you MUST run it. MS Windows advises it, but you don't have to if you don't try anything fancy, like editing the same file twice. 2. If you are creating files > 32 MB. The logic to handle these is in SHARE. That's it. Don't run it. Remove it from your hard disk, and ignore the error message. -- Jeff Rife P.O. Box 3836 | "Because he was human; because he had goodness; College Station, TX 77844 | because he was moral they called him insane. (409) 823-2710 | Delusions of grandeur; visons of splendor; jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu | A manic-depressive, he walks in the rain."