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From: roller@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Jason Deines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
Summary: Why?
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Date: 4 Feb 90 22:50:37 GMT
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I've always been puzzled as to why DOS 4.01 insists on having SHARE.EXE
loaded when dealing with large partitions.  All it says in the manual is
something to the effect that "SHARE must be loaded, or unpredictable
behavior will result".  Thing is, I've had people tell me that's a lot of
nonsense, and that they've run without SHARE for months with no problem at
all.

If that's true, I've got a related question:  how do you stop DOS from
sqawking at you about the lack of SHARE at bootup time?

Would someone please enlighten me?  Thanks.


Jason Deines                   Academic Information Resources
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