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From: seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Charles Seeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0
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Date: 27 Jul 88 16:54:47 GMT
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In article <611@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>
>      Has anyone installed PC-DOS 4.0 yet ?  I saw an interesting blurb
>that stated that if you have larger than a 32MB disk, "share" will be
>installed automatically.  Now I know a new feature of 4.0 is to support
>disk partitions larger than 32 MB but........   Is the new version truely
>allowing more than 65535 total sectors or is it playing some "hidden"
>games with the "share" facility to make you beleive you have one big
>partition ?  Any information is appreciated.

I think the announcement said that the sector addresses were now 32 bits,
rather than 16, which is why DOS 3.x won't read the new file systems.
Doesn't sound like a game to me.  What, exactly, is the share facility,
anyway?

Chuck