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From: garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Thanks and another question about DOS 4.01
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.193839.22130@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 19:38:39 GMT
Organization: Stanford Law School, Stanford University
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   Many thanks to all those who responded to my request for help in
installing DOS 4.01.  In case anyone's interested, what I ultimately
had to do was bypass the install program and just copy the files over
myself, doing a little minor editing on the autoexec.bat and
config.sys (since they both referenced files as 'a:\blah').

   Anyway, 4.01 is up and running just fine now, except for one thing:
every time I boot up it tells me that I should be using SHARE.EXE with
'large media' (my hard drive is 85 meg. or so).  The FM says that
share.exe is to make sure that DOS doesn't do writes to swapped
floppies, but I can't swap my hard drive.  What purpose does share.exe
serve wrt my hard drive?  I've seen replacements for share.exe (the
3-line notshare.com comes to mind) - why are these better (and how can
notshare be better when it's _so_ much smaller)?

			-Gary
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