Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.apps:1103 comp.os.msdos.misc:1211 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!praxis!hrbaan From: hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: using share in dos4 Message-ID: <4870@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 18 Feb 91 10:16:23 GMT References: <3603@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps Lines: 33 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. -- +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Hayo R. Baan | E-Mail : hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl | | Oudwijkerlaan 34 |-----------------------------------------------------| | 3581 TD UTRECHT | | | The Netherlands | A program is like a nose; | | | Sometimes it runs, sometimes it blows. | | Tel. 030-515586 | | +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+