Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!romeo!cchapman From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: What's all this about SHARE ? Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 13:28:13 GMT References: <1991Apr4.211335.21474@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Distribution: na Lines: 25 In <1991Apr4.211335.21474@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes: >Sorry to be so clueless here, but what's behind all this discussion of SHARE? >I've seen lots of postings about share, and even a NOSHARE progam that's so >small that its author includes it in his "signature". I thought SHARE was >only needed if you were running Windows 3.0 in 386Enh mode, with DOS 4.0, >and then only if you were running programs that use FCBs. But lately, I've >seen people mentioning that they're using SHARE with DOS 3.3 (which is what >I use) and without any networks (again, like me), and so I'm beginning to >wonder. You also need SHARE if you have a hard disk partition that's greater than 33 MB using DOS 4.0 and the standard fdisk that comes with it. Chuck -- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ************************************************************** * Home of the 1990 National Champion Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets * ************************************************************** uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!cchapman Internet: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu